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'' poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the

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. She served , the mother of

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as well as Go-Toba's daughter Kayōmon-in. Although the dates of her life are difficult to determine, she was still writing poetry as late as 1248. Her work appears in a large number of imperial poetry collections, including

Shingoshūi Wakashū , abbreviated as ''Shingoshūishū'', a title which recollects the '' Goshūi Wakashū'' and the '' Shinshūi Wakashū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished somewhere around 1383 CE (and revised in 1384), eight yea ...

Senzai Wakashū , often abbreviated as ''Senzaishū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. Compiled in 1187 by Fujiwara no Shunzei at the request of the Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who ordered it in 1183. It consists of twenty volumes cont ...

Shokugosen Wakashū The ("Later Collection Continued") was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished in 1251 CE, three years after the Retired Emperor Go-Saga first ordered it in 1248. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Tameie, son of Fujiwara ...

Gyokuyō Wakashū was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. The work was completed somewhere between 1313 and 1314, two or three years after the Retired Emperor Fushimi first ordered it around 1311. The anthology was compiled by Fujiwara no Tamekane ...

Shinsenzai Wakashū The , sometimes abbreviated as Shinsenzaishū, a title which recollects the '' Senzai Wakashū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka. The title is in opposition to the prior Senzai Wakashū. It was completed in 1359, three years after bei ...

Shinchokusen Wakashū , abbreviated as ''Shinchokusenshū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka, initially compiled in ~1234 CE at the behest of the Retired Emperor Go-Horikawa. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (who also wrote its Japanese preface). It c ...

, and others. Seven of her poems were collected in the ''Shin Kokin Wakashū''. She was a member of the Ōnakatomi clan and likely the daughter of , the chief priest-administrator of

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. She was designated a member of the . She is also known as .

Poetry

One of her poems that was included in the ''Shin Kokin Wakashū'' was a direct reference to an anonymous poem in the ''Kokin Wakashū'' written 300 years prior.

References

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E-text of her poems
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