was a Japanese ''

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'' poet of the mid-

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese ...

Biography

She was the daughter of

Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of '' The Tale of Genji,'' widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between abou ...

and . Her given name was ,Suzuki et al. 2009: 74. although the

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

can also be read as Kenshi. In 1017, she joined to the court and served as a lady-in-waiting for Grand Empress Dowager Shoshi, the mother of Emperor Go-Icjijo. She was married to and produced a son in 1038, and she has a daughter with in 1026. She bore him a girl. She also served as the nurse of Imperial Princess Teishi and Emperor Go-Reizei. When Emperor Go-Reizei ascended the throne, she was promoted.

Poetry

Thirty-seven or thirty-eight of her poems were included in

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from the ''

Goshūi Wakashū :''"The language of poetry should be like brocade and the feeling deeper than the ocean."'' -from Michitoshi's Preface The , sometimes abbreviated as ''Goshūishū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled in 1086 at the behest of ...

'' onward. One of her poems was included as the fifty-eighth in the ''

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets. ''Hyakunin isshu'' can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem ach; it can also refer to the card game of ''uta-garuta'', which uses a deck compos ...

'': She also produced a

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called the .

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.

References

Bibliography

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External links

List of her poems
in the

International Research Center for Japanese Studies The , or Nichibunken (日文研), is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology, it is one of the Nati ...

's online ''

'' database.
Daini no Sanmi
on Kotobank (in Japanese). {{DEFAULTSORT:Daini no Sanmi 11th century in Japan 11th-century Japanese poets Japanese women poets Ladies-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan Hyakunin Isshu poets