Daini no Sanmi
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Daini no Sanmi (大弐三位, dates unknown[1] but born c. 999[2]) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.[1]
Biography[]
She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and .[1][2] Her given name was Katako (賢子),[1][2][3] although the kanji can also be read as Kenshi.[4]
In 1017, she joined to the court and served as a lady-in-waiting for Grand Empress Dowager Shoshi, the mother of Emperor Go-Icjijo.
She was married to [1] She bore him a girl. She also served as the nurse of Imperial Princess Teishi and Emperor Go-Reizei.
and produced son in 1038, and she has a daughter with in 1026.When Emperor Go-Reizei ascended the throne, she was promoted.
Poetry[]
Thirty-seven[2] or thirty-eight[non-primary source needed] 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:
有馬山猪名の笹原風吹けば
いでそよ人を忘れやはする
Arima-yama ina no sasahara kaze fukeba
ide soyo hito o wasure ya wa suru[5]
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.[6]
(Goshūi Wakashū 12:709)
She also produced a private collection called the (大弐三位集).[1][2]
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,[2] although this theory is generally rejected by the majority of scholars.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Digital Daijisen entry "Daini no Sanmi". Shogakukan.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f McMillan 2010 : 142 (note 58).
- ^ Suzuki et al. 2009: 74.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ McMillan 2010: 166.
- ^ McMillan 2010: 60.
Bibliography[]
- Keene, Donald (1999) [paperback edition originally published in 1993]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 301, 478, 480. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
- McMillan, Peter (2010) [first edition published in 2008]. One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Suzuki, Hideo; Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi; Yoda, Yasushi (2009) [first edition published in 1997]. Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (in Japanese). Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
External links[]
- List of her poems in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
- Daini no Sanmi on Kotobank (in Japanese).
- 11th century in Japan
- 11th-century Japanese poets
- Japanese women poets
- Ladies-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan
- Hyakunin Isshu poets