Minamoto no Kintada

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Minamoto no Kintada (889–948), Japanese: 源公忠; also Miyamoto no Kintada Ason, was a mid-Heian waka poet and nobleman. He and his son Minamoto no Saneakira are both named among the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals. Under Emperors Daigo and Suzaku, he served as an official in the imperial treasury. His poems appear in imperial anthologies from the Goshūi Wakashū onward. His personal collection, the Kintadashū, survives. Anecdotes about him are preserved in The Great Mirror and in Yamato Monogatari. He was skilled in falconry and kōdō, as well as poetry.