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Ben no Naishi (1220s?–ca. 1270?) was a 13th-century Japanese court lady, poet and memoirist.[1][2]

Ben no Naishi was the daughter of the poet and painter Fujiwara Nobuzane; her younger sister Shosho no Naishi was also a poet. She served at court as a lady in waiting to Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1243 until the Emperor's abdication in 1259. During her time as a lady in waiting she was responsible for the three imperial regalia of Japan.[3] Her memoir, Ben no naisha nikki, begins with Go-Fukakusa's accession aged three in 1246, and ends (the text is damaged) in 1252.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hulvey, S. Yumiko (1994). "BEN NO NAISHI (1220s?–ca. 1270?)". In Chieko Irie Mulhern (ed.). Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 29–26. ISBN 978-0-313-25486-4.
  2. ^ Yumiko Hulvey (1999). "Ben no Naishi". In Steven D. Carter (ed.). Medieval Japanese Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 203. Gale Research International, Limited. pp. 10–14. ISBN 978-0-7876-3097-3.
  3. ^ "Honolulu Museum of Art : Poet Benno Naishi". honolulumuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  4. ^ George W. Perkins, ed. (1998). The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). Stanford University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-8047-6388-2.