Fujiwara no Shunzei
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In this Japanese name, the surname is Fujiwara.
Fujiwara no Shunzei (藤原 俊成, 1114 – 22 December 1204) was a Japanese poet, courtier, and Buddhist monk of the late Heian period. He was also known as Fujiwara no Toshinari[1] or Shakua (釈阿) and when younger (1123–67) as Akihiro (顕広). He was noted for his innovations in the waka poetic form and compiling the Senzai Wakashū ("Collection of a Thousand Years"), the seventh imperial anthology of waka poetry.