Suō no Naishi
Suō no Naishi (周防内侍; dates unknown, but probably died around 1110; given name Taira no Nakako) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and thirty-five in imperial collections. She also produced a private waka collection, the Suō no Naishi-shū.
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Suō no Naishi
Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III) · Public domain
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- 1037. · Japan.
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- Japan.
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- poet and writer.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Suō no Naishi (周防内侍; dates unknown, but probably died around 1110; given name Taira no Nakako) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and thirty-five in imperial collections. She also produced a private waka collection, the Suō no Naishi-shū.
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The daughter of Taira no Munenaka (平棟仲), the governor of Suō Province, her date of birth is unknown. Her given name was Nakako (仲子). She served as handmaiden (内侍, naishi) in the courts of four emperors, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, Shirakawa and Horikawa. In 1108, she took ordination as a Buddhist nun due to illness. The date of her death is unknown, but she probably died around 1110.
Poetry
Poetry
Thirty-five of her poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Goshūi Wakashū on. The following poem by her was included as No. 67 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: She left a private collection, the Suō no Naishi-shū (周防内侍集).
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Famous woodblock print artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi produced a woodblock print illustrating one of her poems in the early 1840s.
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Life and career
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1037
Suō no Naishi born at Japan.
1109
Suō no Naishi died.
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- 1.McMillan 2010 : 144 (note 67).
- 2.Digital Daijisen entry "Suō no Naishi". Shogakukan.
- 3.Daijirin entry "Fujiwara no Atsuyori". Sanseidō.
- 4.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 86.
- 5.McMillan 2010 : 168.
- 6.McMillan 2010 : 69.
- 7.collections.artsmia.org.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
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