title: Tokudaiji Sanesada
text: # Tokudaiji Sanesada
  
  Tokudaiji Sanesada (徳大寺 実定, 1139–1192) was a Japanese waka poet and nobleman during the Heian period.
  
  He is also known as the Later Tokudaiji Minister of the Left (後徳大寺左大臣, Go-Tokudaiji no Sadaijin), having served as Sadaijin in the Heian imperial administration.
  
  ## Poetry
  
  One of his poems is included in Hyakunin Isshu:
  
     ほととぎす鳴きつる方をながむれば ただ有明の月ぞ残れる hototogisu nakitsuru kata o nagamureba tada ariake no tsuki zo nokoreru (Senzai Wakashū 3:161)
  