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Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii

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Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii in the Ogura Hyakunin isshu.

Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii (祐子内親王家紀伊, dates unknown) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the Heian period. One of her poems is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. She is traditionally enumerated as one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen (女房三十六歌仙). She is also known as Ichinomiya no Kii (一宮紀伊), and her works were featured in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Shingoshūi Wakashū, Senzai Wakashū, Shokugosen Wakashū, Gyokuyō Wakashū, Shinsenzai Wakashū, Shinchokusen Wakashū, and others.