Also known as Kunai-kyō, Go-Toba In Kunai-kyo, Go-Toba In Kunai-kyou
thumb|17th-century depiction of Kunai was a 13th-century Japanese poet, painter, and lady-in-waiting to Emperor Go-Toba. A prominent poet during the Kamakura period, she is considered one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry. Along with Princess Shikishi and Shunzei's daughter, she is recognized as one of the greatest women poets of the 13th century. Her career as a poet-prodigy lasted from approximately 1200 to 1204; she is thought to have died in 1204 or 1205.
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thumb|17th-century depiction of Kunai was a 13th-century Japanese poet, painter, and lady-in-waiting to Emperor Go-Toba. A prominent poet during the Kamakura period, she is considered one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry. Along with Princess Shikishi and Shunzei's daughter, she is recognized as one of the greatest women poets of the 13th century. Her career as a poet-prodigy lasted from approximately 1200 to 1204; she is thought to have died in 1204 or 1205.
Among other uta-awase, she competed in the convened by Go-Toba in the palace in 1201, where 30 poets were commissioned to write hundred-poem sequences. As a fourteen or fifteen year old, Kunaikyō, alongside Shunzei's daughter and Fujiwara no Teika (who also served as one of the ten judges), competed in this event which was second in Go-Toba's literary events only next to the Shin Kokin Wakashū, compiled in the same year.
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