Sagami was a Japanese waka poetess who lived in the reign of Emperor Goreizei. One of her poems is included in One Hundred Poems By One Hundred Poets. There is a collection of her poems. She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū.
Background
Sagami's dates are unknown, but she was probably born around 1000. Her real name was Oto-jijū. Her paternal ancestry is unknown, but she was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu. The fourteenth-century work Chokusen Sakusha Burui claims Yorimitsu was her father, but the Kin'yōshū includes a renga by Yorimitsu and "Sagami's mother", so it is also possible he was her adoptive father. Her mother was a daughter of Yoshishige no Yasuaki, governor of Noto.
Career
109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the Goshūi Wakashū. She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. She served Prince Shūshi (脩子内親王 Shūshi-naishinnō), one of the sons of Emperor Ichijō.
