Background
Shikishi Naishinno was born in 1149 in Japan. She was the third daughter of Emperor Goshirakawa. Her mother was Nariko Fujiwara.
Shikishi Naishinno was born in 1149 in Japan. She was the third daughter of Emperor Goshirakawa. Her mother was Nariko Fujiwara.
In 1159, Shikishi, who did not marry, went into service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto. She left the shrine after some time, and in her later years became a Buddhist nun.
Shikishi is credited with 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū, a collection of some 2,000 popular works compiled in the early Kamakura period, and many other poems included in the Senzai Wakashū, compiled in the late Heian period to commemorate Emperor Go-Shirakawa's ascension, and later compilations.