Fujiwara no Teika
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fujiwara no Sadaie, better-known as Fujiwara no Teika , was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, novelist, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. His influence was enormous, and he is counted as among the greatest of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form – an ancient poetic form consisting of five lines with a total of 31 syllables.
