Minamoto no Tōru by Kikuchi Yōsai Minamoto no Tōru, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.In this *anese name, the surname is Minamoto.

Minamoto no Tōru (源 融, 822 – September 21, 895) was a *anese poet and statesman. He was born the son of Emperor Saga and a member of the Saga Genji clan. He is sometimes mentioned as the model for Hikaru Genji in important *anese literary cl*ic The Tale of Genji.

Under his *le Kawara no Sadaijin (河原左大臣, Minister of the Left of Kawara), he is the author of poem 14 in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry anthology:

The poem originally appeared in the Kokinshū, no. 724. Here is another translation:

The dye with hare's-foot-fern, of Michinoku—who else would have made me feel as disturbed?

The poet is also famous for making a replica of the uta-makura Shiogama ("poetic place name") in his garden.

His tomb resides at the Seiryō-ji, a Buddhist temple situated on what was once Saga Moor in Kyoto.

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