Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

Fujiwara no Yoshitaka (954–974) was a mid-Heian noble and waka poet, the third son of the regent Fujiwara no Koretada. He was counted among the Late Classical Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals, and one of his poems appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

When Koretada died in 972 he considered taking Buddhist vows, but stayed for his newborn son, the future calligrapher Fujiwara no Yukinari. In 974 he died of smallpox on the same day as his elder brother Kyoken, aged about twenty.