Nakatsukasa
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Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991)[1] was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.[2]
Nakatsukasa was the granddaughter of Emperor Uda and the daughter of poet Lady Ise and Prince Atsuyoshi.[3][2] She is one of five women numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. (She married another of the famous thirty-six, Minamoto no Saneakira (源信明).
Many of her poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集), issued in 951. She also was responsible for compiling a collection of her mother's poems.[2][4]
