was a Japanese poet of the Kamakura period.
Biography The Kamakura-period poet conventionally known in Japanese as was the daughter of Taira no Chikakiyo and . This "name" translates to "Taira no Chikakiyo's fifth daughter", and her personal name is unknown.
She was the full sibling of Chikakiyo's fourth daughter. Her relationship (and that of the aforementioned fourth daughter) to the , whose poems appear in the and later imperial anthologies, and , whose poems appear in the and later anthologies, is unknown. At some point she was on . After entering religious orders she lived deep in Higashiyama.
Both her birth and death dates are unknown.
Poetry The Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency has two books known as the comprising 403 poems and 270 poems respectively. The ordering of the poems differs between the two collections, and each contains poems the other does not. These anthologies show she exchanged poetry with her mother, elder sister and niece (. As well as organizing poetic gatherings () on set topics, she composed elegies for (Dowager Empress of Jimyōin), (Former Minister of the Right, Nyudo Kazanin), (Hanazono-in Left General), and others. She also had poems commissioned by the daughter of "the lord of manor" (Kujō Michiie).
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