Ise no Taifu


Ise no Taifu, also known as Ise no Tayū or Ise no Ōsuke, was a Japanese poet active in the early 11th century.
She is one of the later Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of her poems is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Her contemporaries include Uma no Naishi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shōnagon. A diptych of her exists in , implying that although little of her work exists into modernity, she was considered a critically important figurehead of the waka poetry movement, both as a Poetry Immortal and as a woman of renown.
Her grandfather Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu was also an important waka poet.

Poetry

Only a few of no Taifu's poems have survived into modernity, translated in part due to Waka poetry anthologies:
One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
Below is another of her poems, translated in the :