Fujiwara no Sadakata

Fujiwara no Sadakata (藤原定方), also known as the Minister of the Right of Sanjō (三条右大臣), was a Japanese poet and courtier.

The poet Fujiwara no Kanesuke was his cousin and son-in-law and his son Asatada was also a poet. He had another son by the name of Fujiwara no Tomoyori and his father was Fujiwara no Takafuji.

He was appointed as Udajin of the Third Ward and we see him in storied from the Tales of Yamato. 19 poems can be found in the Imperial Anthologies, and he also had a private collection of poems.

Poetry
One of his poems is included in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:

In English, this poem would read as such:

"If they bear such a name: On Mount Osaka, with the scarlet ivy that tells you to "Come and sleep!" Oh, how I wish there would a way to come to you, as if pulling such a vine, intangible to others."''