Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He produced a private waka collection, the Yoshitaka-shū. Biography Yoshitaka was born in 954, the son of Fujiwara no Koretada. He served as . He was the father of the respected calligrapher Yukinari.　When his father died, Yoshitaka considered ordaining as a Buddhist monk. In the same year his son was born, which dissuaded him from pursuing a religious career. He died in 974, at age twenty, of smallpox, on the same day as his twin brother.