Asukai Masatsune  He was a son of , and the ancestor of the Asukai family, who were known for their skill at both poetic composition and "kemari". Being of Fujiwara stock, he was also known as . Among his grandchildren was the poet Masaari. He made a private collection, the "Asukai-shū", which was posthumously edited by his grandson in 1292. Twenty-two of his poems were included in the "Shin Kokin Wakashū", and a total of 134 in the imperial anthologies. Masatsune served three emperors, Go-Toba, Tsuchimikado and Juntoku, in addition to working under the Kamakura shogunate. Masatsune studied "waka" under Fujiwara no Shunzei and from 1201 served in the . He served as one of the compilers of the "Shin Kokin Wakashū", along with Shunzei's son Teika. Some twenty-two of his own poems were included in the imperial collection. A total of 134 of his poems were included in it and later imperial collections. He also compiled a private "waka" collection, the , which was edited by his grandson Masaari in 1292. The following poem by him was included as No. 94 in Teika's famous "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu":