Nakatsukasa

Nakatsukasa by Kanō Yasunobu, 1648

Nakatsukasa (中務なかつかさ, 912–991) was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.

Nakatsukasa was the granddaughter of Emperor Uda and the daughter of poet Lady Ise and Prince Atsuyoshi. She is one of five women numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. (She married another of the famous thirty-six, Minamoto no Saneakira (源みなもと信明のぶあき).

Many of her poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology Gosen Wakashū (後ご撰せん和歌集わかしゅう), issued in 951.

External links

• Nakatsukasa's poetry online in Japanese