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

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. Her memoir, Ben no naisha nikki, begins with Go-Fukakusa's accession aged three in 1246, and ends (the text is damaged) in 1252.

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.

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