Nijō-in no Sanuki

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Nijō-in no Sanuki ( Japanese 二条 院 讃 岐 ; * around 1141 ; † around 1217 ) was a Japanese poet.

She was born to Minamoto no Yorimasa and the daughter of Minamoto no Masayori . Nijō-in no Sanuki was the lady-in-waiting of the abdicated Tennō Nijō (Nijō-in), from whom her emergency name is derived, and wife of the military leader and poet Minamoto no Yorimasa. She was one of the most respected poets of her time and is one of the thirty-six female immortals of poetry (Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen). Some of her poems have been included in the anthology Ogura Hyakunin Isshu . In later years she retired from the world as a Buddhist nun.

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Individual evidence

  1. 二条 院 讃 岐 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Shogakukan, accessed January 13, 2011 (Japanese).