Career
One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and thirty-five in imperial collections. She also produced a private waka collection, the Suō no Naishi-shū. The daughter of Taira no Munenaka (平棟仲), the governor of Suō Province, her date of birth is unknown.
Her given name was Nakako (仲子).
She served as handmaiden (内侍, naishi) in the courts of four emperors, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, Shirakawa and Horikawa. The date of her death is unknown, but she probably died around 1110.