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On balance, I think Wikipedia's version is less depressing, if less beautiful.
(No mention of a love affair between the two, but the princess died in her fifties, a year after Teika had his first big break in poetry at age 38.
Also, the bit about preferring the ball game to poetry was taken from Teika's own heir, one of his 27 kids from various women.
And he sounded like a bit of an arrogant asshole. A prima donna, anyway, who only valued his own opinion on poetry, and rejected all others.)
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