Early Women Writers

Nakatsukasa

Heian-kyo (modern day Kyoto)

912-991

Nakatsukasa was the daughter of poet Lady Ise and the granddaughter of Emperor Uda. She is one of five women included amongst the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Much of her work is included in the Gosen Wakashu imperial anthology.

Poetry

Japanese

Poetry

Brower, Robert H., and Earl Miner. Japanese Court Poetry. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1961.