Sosei
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Who is Sosei?
Sosei 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 sometime after his father, who took the tonsure after the death of Emperor Nimmyō in 850.
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