Gishūmon'in no Tango

Gishūmon'in no Tango (宜秋門院丹後, dates unknown) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the late Heian period and early Kamakura period. Her work appears in a large number of imperial poetry collections, including Shingoshūi Wakashū, Senzai Wakashū, Shokugosen Wakashū, Gyokuyō Wakashū, Shinsenzai Wakashū, Shinchokusen Wakashū, and others. She is designated as a member of the Female Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (女房三十六歌仙, Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen). She is also known as Tango no Zenni (丹後禅尼).

External links

• E-text of her poems in Japanese