Asukai Masatsune

was a Japanese waka poet of the early Kamakura period. He was also an accomplished kemari player. and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

He was a son of , 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.

Political career

Masatsune served three emperors, Go-Toba, Tsuchimikado and Juntoku, in addition to working under the Kamakura shogunate.

み吉野の 山の秋風 さ夜ふけて ふるさと寒く 衣うつなり Mi-yoshino no yama no aki-kaze sa-yo fukete furu-sato samuku koromo utsu nari The autumn wind blowing down the mountain brings on the night. At the old capital of Yoshino it gets colder, and I can hear pounding— cloth being fulled.