Takashina Takako

Japanese: 高階貴子 - たかしなのきし

Year of death: 2.10 (996)
Year of birth: Unknown. A poet of the Heian period. Daughter of Takashina Shigetada. Also known as Takanaishi and the mother of Fujiwara no Ise, she is also known as Gito Sanshi no Haha. She served as a lady-in-waiting in the Imperial Court of Emperor En'yu, but her knowledge of Chinese characters and Chinese studies was highly valued, leading to her promotion to Naishi. She became the wife of Chukanpaku Fujiwara no Michitaka, and gave birth to Emperor Ichijo's Empress Teishi, Minister of the Interior Ise, and Chunagon Takaie, and her father Shigetada also rose to the rank of Junior Second Rank, which became the foundation of the Takashina clan's prosperity. Only six of her waka poems remain, starting with the "Shuishu" collection, but it can be seen in "Okagami" and "Eiga Monogatari" that she excelled in Chinese poetry and prose, influenced by her highly educated father. Due to this influence, Teishi and the other daughters of the Chukanpaku family were highly regarded for their Chinese talents from a young age. She died while Ise and Takaie were exiled.

(Toyoko Matsuda)

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Japanese:

没年：長徳2.10(996)
生年：生年不詳
平安時代の歌人。高階成忠の娘。高内侍,また藤原伊周の母であることで儀同三司母ともいう。円融天皇の禁中に女房として出仕していたが,漢字漢学の教養が評価され,内侍となる。中関白藤原道隆室となり,一条天皇の皇后定子や内大臣伊周,中納言隆家を生んだことから,父成忠も従二位まで進み,高階氏の繁栄の礎ともなった。和歌は『拾遺集』以下に6首が現存するだけであるが,学才の深い父の影響で,漢詩文に長けていたことが『大鏡』や『栄華物語』にみられる。定子をはじめ中関白家の子女たちも,その影響で若年から漢才の世評が高かった。伊周,隆家の配流中に死去した。

(松田豊子)

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