page_title: Ki no Tsurayuki
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Ki no Tsurayuki / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Tosa nikki（Tosa Diary)(10th century) faithfully copied by Fujiwara no Teika(1162-1241),　ink on paper, 13th century, Japan. This image is a last part of the diary. "ん(む)まれしもかへら ぬものをわかやとに こまつのあるをみる かヽなしさとそいへる なほあかすやあらん(む) またかくなん(む) みしひとのまつのち とせにみましかは とほくかなしきわかれ せましや." (生まれしも帰らぬ者を我が宿に小松のあるを見るが悲しさとぞ言へる。なほ飽かずやあらむ、またかくなむ。見し人の松の千歳に見ましかば遠く悲しき別れせましや。) 日本語: 藤原定家臨書　紀貫之筆『土佐日記』　尊経閣文庫
context_page_description: Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese author, poet and courtier of the Heian period. He is best known as the principal compiler of the Kokin Wakashū, also writing its Japanese Preface, and as a possible author of the Tosa Diary, although this was published anonymously.
  Tsurayuki was a son of Ki no Mochiyuki. In the 890s he became a poet of waka, short poems composed in Japanese. In 905, under the order of Emperor Daigo, he was one of four poets selected to compile the Kokin Wakashū, the first imperially-sponsored anthology of waka poetry.
  After holding a few offices in Kyoto, he was appointed the provincial governor of Tosa Province and stayed there from 930 until 935. Later he was presumably appointed the provincial governor of Suō Province, since it was recorded that he held a waka party at his home in Suo.
  He is well known for his waka and is counted as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals selected by Fujiwara no Kintō. He was also known as one of the editors of the Kokin Wakashū. Tsurayuki wrote one of two prefaces to Kokin Wakashū; the other is in Chinese. His preface was the first critical essay on waka.
context_section_description: Besides the Kokin Wakashū and its Japanese preface, Tsurayuki's major literary work was the Tosa Nikki (土佐日記, "Tosa Diary"), which was written using kana. The text details a trip in 935 returning to Kyoto from Tosa Province, where Tsurayuki had been the provincial governor.
caption: Tosa Nikki faithfully copied by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) (Museum of the Imperial Collections)
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