| 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 but born c. 999) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.
Biography
She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Nobutaka [ja]. Her given name was Katako (賢子), although the kanji can also be read as Kenshi.
In 1017, she joined to the court and served as a lady-in-waiting for Grand Empress Dowager Shoshi, the mother of Emperor Go-Ichijo. 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. 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 or thirty-eight 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
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.
(Goshūi Wakashū 12:709)
She also produced a private collection called the Daini no Sanmi-shū (大弐三位集).
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.
References
- ^ Digital Daijisen entry "Daini no Sanmi". Shogakukan.
- ^ McMillan 2010 : 142 (note 58).
- Suzuki et al. 2009: 74.
- "Ｑ＆Ａ". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
- McMillan 2010: 166.
- McMillan 2010: 60.
Bibliography
- Keene, Donald (1999) . 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) . One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Suzuki, Hideo; Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi; Yoda, Yasushi (2009) . Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (in Japanese). Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
External links
- List of her poems in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
- Daini no Sanmi on Kotobank (in Japanese).