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Nakatsukasa

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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.[1] 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 (みなもと信明のぶあき).

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

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  1. ^ "Lady Ise • . A History . . of Japan . 日本にっぽん歴史れきし". . A History . . of Japan . 日本にっぽん歴史れきし. Retrieved 2023-03-19.