- Princess Shikishi
Princess Shikishi ( _ja. 式子内親王 "Shikishi Naishinnō") (died 1201) was a medieval Japanese
poet , who lived during the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. She was the third daughter ofEmperor Go-Shirakawa (1127-1192, reigned 1155-1158). In 1159, Shikishi, who did not marry, went into service at theKamo Shrine inKyoto . She left the shrine after some time, and in her later years became a Buddhist nun.Shikishi is credited with 49 poems in the "Shin Kokin Shū", a collection of some 2,000 popular works compiled in the early Kamakura period, and many other poems included in the "
Senzai Wakashū ", compiled in the late Heian period to commemorate Emperor Go-Shirakawa's ascension) and later compilations.The poet's name is sometimes also pronounced "Shokushi" (both are "on-yomi" readings). Modern given names using the same characters include "Shikiko" (mix of "on-" and "kun-yomi") and "Noriko" (pure "kun-yomi"). Her title, "Naishinnō" ( _ja. 内親王), means "Imperial Princess".
ee also
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Fujiwara no Teika
* "Hyakunin Isshu "References
* Kokugo Dai Jiten Dictionary, Shinsou-ban (Revised edition), Shogakukan, 1988
External links
* [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/images/onna89.jpgphoto] - (from an edition of
Hyakunin Isshu , an anthology of waka poems; 89/100 ffom [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/index/hyaku3euc.html] )
* [http://www.nijl.ac.jp/databases/db-room/syouzou/sn02/html/thumsn02.htm photo] - (from Hyakunin Isshu "zue" ( _ja. 図会), book of paintings and poems)
* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sg2h-ymst/yamatouta/image/100_l89.jpgphoto] - (from Hyakunin Isshucard game , modern era)
* [http://www.bookrags.com/Shikishi_Naishinn%C5%8D Biography] - (from Dictionary of Literary Biography)
* String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi University of Hawaii Press, 1993. ISBN 0824814835
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