Nakatsukasa
Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991)[1] was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.[2]
Nakatsukasa was the granddaughter of Emperor Uda and the daughter of poet Lady Ise and Prince Atsuyoshi.[3][2] She is one of five women numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. (She married another of the famous thirty-six, Minamoto no Saneakira (源信明).
Many of her poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集), issued in 951. She also was responsible for compiling a collection of her mother's poems.[2][4]
References
- ^ Persiani, Gian Piero (2025-07-28). Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan. BRILL. p. 45. ISBN 978-90-04-74216-1.
- ^ a b c Miner, Earl; Morrell, Robert E.; Odagiri, Hiroko (2020-09-01). The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Princeton University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-691-21838-0.
- ^ "Lady Ise • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史". . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ^ Konishi, Jin'ichi (2017-03-14). A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 2: The Early Middle Ages. Princeton University Press. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-1-4008-8603-6.
External links
- Nakatsukasa's poetry online in Japanese