Ise no Taifu
Item
Author
Ise no Taifu
Location
Heian-kyo (modern day Kyoto)
Dates
989-1060
Biography
Ise no Taifu is named amongst the Thirty-six Female Poetry Immortals and has work represented in a number of imperial anthologies. She is particularly well represented within the Goshui Wakashu, in which she has twenty seven poems. One of her poems is also included in the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poems by one hundred poets.) [Source: Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: Hawai'i UP, 1996.]
Languages
Japanese
Genres
Poetry
Editions and Translations
McMilan, Peter. One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. New York: Columbia UP, 2010 ; Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: Hawai'i UP, 1996.
