Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍, c. 999 – November 1025) was a Japanese waka poet of the early eleventh century.[1][2][3] One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.[1][2][4][5]
She was the daughter of Izumi Shikibu and Tachibana no Michisada (橘道貞),[1][2][3] the governor of Mutsu.[1]
Starting around 1009,[2] she joined her mother[2][3][4] in serving Empress Shōshi.[1][2][3][4]
A target of many suitors, she eventually married Fujiwara no Kiminari (藤原公成).[2] They had a child, but she died thereafter, still in her late twenties.[1][2][3]
Four[4] of her poems were included in imperial anthologies such as the Goshūi Wakashū and the Kin'yō Wakashū.[1][3]
The following poem by her was included as No. 60 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
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Numerous anecdotes about her were incorporated into later treatises on poetry (歌論書, karonsho) and setsuwa collections.[1]
An otogizōshi, Koshikibu, was also written.[1]