Kisen
Kisen also known as Kisen Hōshi was an early Heian period Buddhist monk and poet. Little is known about his life other than that he lived in Ujiyama.
When Ki no Tsurayuki wrote the Japanese preface of the Kokinshū, he selected Kisen as one of the six poetic sages whose work was to be considered as superior. Tsurayuki says the following to comment on Kisen's work.
Kisen is sometimes said to be the author of the poetry collection waka sakushiki, but it is probably apocryphal and created well after the end of the Heian period.
The following two eika of Kisen are the only poems that can be confidently traced back to him.
