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Sosei Hōshi by Kanō Tan’yū, 1648
Sosei (素性 or 素性法師, c. 816—910) was a Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest. He is reckoned as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of his poems was included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu. His father Henjo was also a waka poet and monk.
Sosei entered religious life together with his father after the death of Emperor Nimmyō in 850.
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- 810s births
- 910 deaths
- Buddhist monks
- Japanese poets
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