Background
Kamo no Suetaka was born in 1752.
Kamo no Suetaka was born in 1752.
Kamo no Suetaka was originally priest at Kamikamo Shrine, and after studying waka poetry from Prince Taruhito Arisugawa-no-Miya, and the classics from Chikage Tachibana, earned a reputation for himself as a witty poet. Among his anthologies are Manyoshu Ruiku and Ise-Monogatari Bochu (Commentary of Ise-Monogatari).