藤原敏行
ふじわらのとしゆき ?-901 or 907
An important figure in the transitional period between the “Six Sages” poetic era of Narihira and the KKS. He participated in a number of early poetry competitions, but his poetry seems to have lost favor in later ages. He is represented in the KKS by 19 poems, but by only 4 in the GSS, and a further 6 in later anthologies. He never attained higher than the junior-4th rank.
「感覚の繊細さや機智性、また整った韻律などに宮廷歌人の風雅を示しているが、心情吐露の作もある」(国史大辞典)
敏行集
新編国歌大観 III.8, 私家集大成 I.22
This is a small collection of 19 poems that seem to be drawn from the KKS and GSS, along with several more (5 in the base text) that are either of unknown origin or ascribed to other authors in other sources. It lacks some of the poems ascribed to him in the first two anthologies. Presumably it was compiled after Toshiyuki's death.
