Daini no Sanmi
{{Short description|Japanese poet in the Heian period; daughter of Murasaki Shikibu}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Daini no Sanmi
| image = File:Hyakuninisshu 058.jpg
| caption = Daini no Sanmi, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
| birth_date = {{circa|999}}
| occupation = 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)
| father = Fujiwara no Nobutaka
| mother = Murasaki Shikibu
}}
{{nihongo|Daini no Sanmi|大弐三位||extra=dates unknownDigital Daijisen entry "Daini no Sanmi". Shogakukan. but born {{circa|999}}McMillan 2010 : 142 (note 58).}} was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.
Biography
She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and {{ill|Fujiwara no Nobutaka|ja|藤原宣孝}}. Her given name was {{nihongo|Katako|賢子}},Suzuki et al. 2009: 74. although the kanji can also be read as Kenshi.{{Cite web |url=http://iseki.ipc.shimane-u.ac.jp/tanken/QA/qa.php?p=16 |title=Ｑ＆Ａ |access-date=2015-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133300/http://iseki.ipc.shimane-u.ac.jp/tanken/QA/qa.php?p=16 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}
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 {{ill|Takashina no Nariakira|ja|高階成章}} and produced a son in 1038, and she had a daughter with {{ill|Fujiwara no Kanetaka|ja|藤原兼隆}} 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{{primary source inline|date=July 2015}} 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:
{{waka|有馬山猪名の笹原風吹けば|いでそよ人を忘れやはする
|reading = Arima-yama ina no sasahara kaze fukeba
ide soyo hito o wasure ya wa suruMcMillan 2010: 166.
|translation = 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.McMillan 2010: 60.
|source = Goshūi Wakashū 12:709
}}
She also produced a private collection called the {{nihongo|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
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Keene|first=Donald|authorlink=Donald Keene|title=A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century|publisher= Columbia University Press|location = New York|year=1999|orig-year=paperback edition originally published in 1993|isbn=978-0-231-11441-7|pages=301, 478, 480}}
- {{cite book|last=McMillan|first=Peter|year=2010|orig-year=first edition published in 2008|title=One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press}}
- {{cite book|last1=Suzuki|first1=Hideo|last2=Yamaguchi|first2=Shin'ichi|last3=Yoda|first3=Yasushi|year=2009|orig-year=first edition published in 1997|title=Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu|location=Tokyo|publisher=Bun'eidō|language=ja}}
External links
- [http://lapis.nichibun.ac.jp/waka/index_creator3_34.html List of her poems] in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
- [https://kotobank.jp/word/大弐三位-558039 Daini no Sanmi] on Kotobank (in Japanese).
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Category:11th-century Japanese poets