Daini no Sanmi | |
|---|---|
 Daini no Sanmi, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu | |
| Born | c. 999 |
| Occupation(s) | Lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi, poet, wet nurse to Emperor Go-Reizei |
| Spouse | Takashina no Nariakira |
| Children | Son by spouse, and daughter with Fujiwara no Kanetaka (unknown identity) |
| Parents |
|
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]
She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Nobutaka.[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 and produced a son in 1038, and she had a daughter with Fujiwara no Kanetaka 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.
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]
Some scholars have attributed the final ten chapters of her mother's magnum opus, The Tale of Genji, to her.[2]
