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Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Sei Shōnagon
Japanese author and court lady
Akiko Yosano
Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
Jitō
Empress of Japan (645-703)
Genmei
Empress regnant of Japan
Ono no Komachi
Japanese poet
Izumi Shikibu
Japanese poet
Akazome Emon
Japanese poet
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Japanese writer (1703-1775)
Ise
noblewoman; Japanese poet
Daini no Sanmi
Japanese poet in the Heian period; daughter of Murasaki Shikibu
Shikishi-naishinnō
Japanese princess and poet, daughter of emperor Go-Shirakawa
Ukon
Japanese poet and writer
Princess Nukata
Japanese poet
Nijō-in no Sanuki
Japanese poet
Takashina no Takako
Japanese waka poet
Suō no Naishi
Japanese poet
Sagami
Japanese waka poet
Sugawara no Takasue no musume
11th-century Japanese author
Koshikibu no Naishi
Japanese waka poet
Abutsu-ni
Abutsu-ni (阿仏尼, c. 12221283; the -ni suffix means "nun") was a Japanese poet and nun. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Kuniko, later known as Empress Ankamon-in. In approximately 1250 she married fellow poet Fujiwara no Tameie. She had two children with him. Following his death in 1275, she became a nun. A dispute over her son's inheritance led her, in either 1277 or 1279, to travel from Kyoto to Kamakura in order to plead on her son's behalf. Her account of this journey, told in poems and letters, was published as Izayoi nikki (Diary of the Waning Moon or Journal of the Sixteenth-N
Ise no Taifu
Japanese poet
Ike Gyokuran
Japanese painter, calligrapher, and poet (1727–1784)
Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii
Japanese poet in the late-Heian period
Saigū no Nyōgo
Japanese poet in Heian period; consort of emperor Murakami
Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
Japanese poet
Ōtagaki Rengetsu
Japanese Buddhist nun, poet, potter and artist (1791–1875)
Inpumon-in no Taifu
Japanese poet
Horikawa
Japanese poet
Nakatsukasa
thumb|Nakatsukasa by Kanō Yasunobu, 1648
Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991) was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.
Saionji Kishi
Empress consort of Japan
Kōkamon-in no Bettō
Japanese poet
Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets
36 Japanese women poets between the Heian period and the Kamakura period
Imekanu
, also known by her Japanese name , was an Ainu missionary and epic poet. Along with her niece, Yukie Chiri, she wrote down and preserved numerous Ainu yukar she learned from her mother.
Empress Yamato
Japanese empress
Lady Kasa
Japanese poet
Saionji Shōshi
empress consort of Japanese emperor Fushimi. also famous as poet
Ben no Naishi
Japanese lady-in-waiting in the mid 1200s.
Shunzei's Daughter
poet
Kodai no Kimi
Japanese poet
Uma no Naishi
Japanese poet
Hachijō-in no Takakura
12th-13th century Japanese poet
Go-Saga-in chūnagon no tenji
Japanese noblewoman and poet
Agata Inukai no Michiyo
poet
Kojijū
Kojijū (小侍従; 1121–1202 CE) (also Matsuyoi no Kojijū) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the late Heian period.
Sōhekimon-in no Shōshō
Japanese poet
Ono Otsū
Japanese calligrapher and poet from Sengoku period
Takeko Kujō
Japanese poet
Gofukakusa-in no shōshō no naishi
Japanese poet
Ema Saikō
Japanese poet and calligrapher
Taeko Tomioka
Japanese novelist, screenwriter, poet and writer (1935–2023)
Shikikenmon-in no mikushige
Japanese poet
Katayama Hiroko
Japanese translator and writer (1878–1957)
Kayōmon-in no Echizen
Japanese poet
Tsuchimikado-in no kozaishō
Japanese poet
Kenreimon-in Ukyō no Daibu
Japanese poet
Go-Toba-in no Shimotsuke
Gishūmon-in no Tango
Japanese poet
Shirome
Shirome (白女) was a minor female Japanese waka poet, who lived during the early 10th century CE.
Sano no Chigami no Otome
8th-century Japanese poet, palace attendant