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Daini no Sanmi, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

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]

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-Icjijo. 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.

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 constant—there 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]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Digital Daijisen entry "Daini no Sanmi". Shogakukan.
  2. ^ a b c d e f McMillan 2010 : 142 (note 58).
  3. ^ Suzuki et al. 2009: 74.
  4. ^ "Ｑ＆Ａ". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  5. ^ McMillan 2010: 166.
  6. ^ McMillan 2010: 60.

Bibliography

  • Keene, Donald (1999) [paperback edition originally published in 1993]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 301, 478, 480. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
  • McMillan, Peter (2010) [first edition published in 2008]. One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Suzuki, Hideo; Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi; Yoda, Yasushi (2009) [first edition published in 1997]. Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (in Japanese). Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
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