Princess Kagami (鏡王女 ''Kagami-no-ōkimi'') was a Japanese princess and ''
waka'' poet of the
Asuka period.
Biography
It is unknown when the poet known as Princess Kagami was born.
's ''
Man'yōshū Kogi'' (万葉集古義) speculates that she was the elder sister of
Princess Nukata
, also spelled ''Nukada'', was a Japanese poet of the Asuka period.
The daughter of and supposed younger sister of Princess Kagami, Nukata became Emperor Tenmu's favorite wife and bore him a daughter, Princess Tōchi (who would become Emperor K ...
. She exchanged ''
sōmonka'' with
Fujiwara no Kamatari, and the ''
Kōfukuji Engi'' (興福寺縁起) records that she was his wife.
She died in 683.
Poetry
Poems 92, 93, 489, 1419, and 1607 in the ''
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...
'' are attributed to her.
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7th-century Japanese poets
Man'yō poets
Japanese women poets
Japanese princesses