late Heian – Kamakura period · 1130?–1200?Inpumon'in no Taifu

A late Heian woman poet, daughter of Fujiwara no Nobunari, who served Princess Ryōshi, daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. So prolific that she was nicknamed 'Taifu of the thousand poems', she joined the Karin-en salon of Priest Shun'e and exchanged poems with Teika, Jakuren, Saigyō and Minamoto no Yorimasa, competing in many contests. She became a nun in 1192 when her mistress took vows. One of the Thirty-Six Women Immortals, she has about sixty-five poems in imperial anthologies. Her Hyakunin Isshu poem shows sleeves stained crimson by tears of blood, outdoing an earlier poem by Minamoto no Shigeyuki.