Introduction

This week and next were going to be talking about two of the most famous figures of japanese poetry, ki noruki and fujiala no teka. Who was kino rauki? And why does he matter? Well, he was born in either eight 66 or eight 72. To the key family of aristocrats, that timing would place him in the early haon period,. About a century or so removed from when the imperial family of Japan set itself up in what it called haon ko.