Thirty-six Female Immortals of Poetry
Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen (女房三十六歌仙?), composed in the Kamakura period, refers to thirty-six female immortals of poetry:
- Ono no Komachi
- Ise
- Nakatsukasa
- Kishi Joō
- Ukon
- Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha
- Uma no Naishi
- Akazome Emon
- Izumi Shikibu
- Kodai no Kimi
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Koshikibu no Naishi
- Ise no Taifu
- Sei Shōnagon
- Daini no Sanmi
- Takashina no Kishi
- Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii
- Sagami
- Shikishi Naishinnō
- Kunai-kyō
- Suō no Naishi
- Fujiwara no Toshinari no Musume
- Taiken Moin no Horikawa
- Gishū Moin no Tango
- Kayō Moin no Echizen
- Nijō In no Sanuki
- Kojijū
- Gotoba In no Shimotsuke
- Ben no Naiji
- Go-Fukakusa In no Shōshōnaishi
- Inpu Moin no Taifu
- Tsuchimikado In no Kosaishō
- Hachijō In no Takakura
- Fujiwara no Chikako
- Shikiken Moin no Mikushige
- Sōheki Moin no Shōshō
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