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was a Japanese poet and musician of the early Heian period. His name is recorded in the ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu'', but there are no historical accounts of his pedigree. Some accounts say he was a son of Uda Tennō, Prince Atsumi, or that he was the fourth son of Daigo Tennō. There are also claims that he lived during the reign of Ninmyō Tennō. He is said to have built his hermitage in a cave at Ausaka no Seki. Supposedly, on seeing the traffic on the road to the capital, he composed the following For this he became known as . For three years while Minamoto no Hiromasa travelled to the capital regularly, Semimaru is said to have tutored him on the secret techniques of and . Contradictory legends say that he was a blind master of the ''biwa'', and that he was a sighted common beggar. The above ''waka'' appears in the imperial anthology ''Gosen Wakashū'' and three of his other poems appear in the anthologies ''Shin Kokin Wakashū'' and ''Zoku Kokin Wakashū''. In ''nō'' there is a play called "''Sekimaru''" that depicts the life of a woman named , who came to Afusaka no Seki and initially quarrelled with Semimaru, but eventually they fell in love and later had a painful separation. It is unclear if the Semimaru of this tale is the same Semimaru as the poet of the ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. == Relevant historical landmarks == * in , Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture. *A stone grave bearing the name of Semimaru in Miyazaki Village, Fukui Prefecture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Semimaru」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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