page_title: Fujiwara no Michinobu
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Fujiwara no Michinobu / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: This print from Hokusai's last and unfinished series — One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, as Explained by the Nurse —depicts a scene of travelers passing through a country village at dawn. On this print, the poem is transcribed in a cartouche at the upper right, along with the series title (translation below by Peter Morse):Though I know full wellThat the night will come again,E'en when day has dawned;Yet, in truth, I hate the sight,Of the morning's coming light.
context_page_description: Fujiwara no Michinobu was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He produced a private waka collection, the Michinobu-shū.
context_section_description: Born in 972, he was a son of Tamemitsu and adopted by the latter's brother Kaneie.
  He served as commander of the guard, and although he died young he was considered a brilliant commander. He died in 994.
caption: Katsushika Hokusai, The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, 1839, Princeton University Art Museum, depicting the poem transcribed in the cartouche at upper right:
   Though I know full well
   That the night will come again,
   E'en when day has dawned;
   Yet, in truth, I hate the sight,
   Of the morning's coming light.
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