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Daini no Sanmi

Japanese poet in the Heian period; daughter of Murasaki Shikibu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daini no Sanmi
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Daini no Sanmi (大弐三位; dates unknown[1] but born c.999[2]) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.[1]

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Biography

She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Nobutaka [ja].[1][2] Her given name was Katako (賢子),[1][2][3] although the kanji can also be read as Kenshi.[4]

In 1017, she joined to the court and served as a lady-in-waiting for Grand Empress Dowager Shoshi, the mother of Emperor Go-Ichijo. She was married to Takashina no Nariakira [ja] and produced a son in 1038, and she had a daughter with Fujiwara no Kanetaka [ja] in 1026.[1] She also served as the nurse of Imperial Princess Teishi and Emperor Go-Reizei. When Emperor Go-Reizei ascended the throne, she was promoted.

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Poetry

Thirty-seven[2] or thirty-eight[non-primary source needed] of her poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Goshūi Wakashū onward.

One of her poems was included as the fifty-eighth in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:

有馬山猪名の笹原風吹けば
     いでそよ人を忘れやはする

Arima-yama ina no sasahara kaze fukeba
ide soyo hito o wasure ya wa suru[5]

At the foot of Mt. Arima the wind rustles through bamboo grasses wavering yet constantthere will never be a moment that I forget about you.[6]
(Goshūi Wakashū 12:709)

She also produced a private collection called the Daini no Sanmi-shū (大弐三位集).[1][2]

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Possible partial authorship of The Tale of Genji

Some scholars have attributed the final ten chapters of her mother's magnum opus, The Tale of Genji, to her.[2]

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