Sagami

She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū.

Sagami's dates are unknown, but she was probably born around 1000. Her real name was Oto-jijū. Her paternal ancestry is unknown, but she was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu. The fourteenth-century work Chokusen Sakusha Burui (勅撰作者部類) claims Yorimitsu was her father, but the Kin'yōshū includes a renga by Yorimitsu and "Sagami's mother" (相模母), so it is also possible he was her adoptive father. Her mother was a daughter of Yoshishige no Yasuaki, governor of Noto (前能登守慶滋保章). She was married to Ōe no Kin'yori, during his tenure as the governor of Sagami Province, from which her nickname is derived. She served Imperial Princess Shūshi, one of the daughters of Emperor Ichijō.

109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the Goshūi Wakashū. She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. The following poem by her was included as No. 65 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: • Japanese text — Romanized Japanese — English translation •:恨みわび:ほさぬ袖だに:あるものを:恋に朽ちなむ:名こそ惜しけれ —:Urami-wabi:hosanu sode dani:aru mono wo:koi ni kuchinan:na koso oshikere —:My sleeves will never dry:with all these bitter tears:of unrequited love.:But even worse:the regret of having lost:my good name—:tainted by this love. She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū.