Inpumon’in no Tayū

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- Period: Heian Period / Kamakura Period
- Occupation: Waka Poet
- Family: Fujiwara no Nobunari (father)
- Birth: c.1130
- Death: c.1200

Inpumon’in no Tayū

Inpumon’in no Tayū (殷富門院大輔) was a Japanese poet and daughter to Fujiwara no Nobunari who lived from c.1130-c.1200.

During her lifetime she served Princess Ryoshi.

She was held in high regard by Teika and is seen to have participated in many poetry contests, and was a member of the Karin’en Poetic Circle.

We can find 63 of her poems in the Imperial Anthologies as well as in a private collection.¹

One of her poems (No.90) can be found in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and goes as follows:

Japanese text²	Romanized Japanese¹	English translation¹
見せばやな雄島のあまの袖だにもぬれにぞぬれし色はかはらず	Misebayana Ojima no ama no sode dani mo nure ni zo nureshi iro wa kawarazu	How I would like to show you - the fishermen's sleeves of Ojima are drenched, but even so have not lost their colour, as minehave, bathed in endless tears.

Footnotes

1. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.
2. Suzuki, H. et al. (1997) ”Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu”. Tokyo: Bun’eidō.

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