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Japanese: 有智子内親王 - うちこないしんのう

Year of death: 26th October 14th Jowa (7th December 847)
Year of birth: Daido 2 (807)
The first Kamo Saio (Saiin). A Chinese poet of the Heian period. Second rank. Daughter of Emperor Saga and his wife Katano no Hime. In 810, at the age of four, she became the Saio of Kamo Shrine, founded by Emperor Saga, and spent her days serving the gods at Saiin in Murasakino, north of Kyoto. She excelled in poetry and prose from an early age, and in the spring of 823, when the Emperor visited the Saiin for a flower banquet, she presented him with a seven-character regulated poem, which impressed him, and he was given 100 households of land as a "fee for summoning literary figures," that is, as a fee for holding poetry gatherings and other events. This was the forerunner of the creation of literary salons at Saiin, which, combined with its proximity to the capital, should be noted. In 831, she retired from Saiin due to illness, and spent her later years in seclusion at Saga Nishi-sho. Her poems are included in Shoku Nihongi and Keikokushu. Her grave is said to be located to the west of Rakushisha in Saga, and is commonly known as Hime Myojin.

(Murai Yasuhiko)

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Japanese:

没年：承和14.10.26(847.12.7)
生年：大同2(807)
初代の賀茂斎王(斎院)。平安時代の漢詩人。二品。嵯峨天皇と宮人交野女王の皇女。弘仁1(810)年,4歳で嵯峨天皇の創始した賀茂社の斎王となり,洛北紫野にあった斎院で神に仕える日々を送った。早くから詩文に長じ,弘仁14(823)年春,斎院での花宴に訪れた天皇に七言律詩を献じて感嘆させ,「文人を召す料」,すなわち詩会などを催すための費用として封100戸を与えられている。こうしたことが先蹤となり,都に近いこととあいまって斎院に文学サロンが生まれたことに留意したい。天長8(831)年病によって斎院を退き,晩年は嵯峨西荘に閑居した。『続日本後紀』『経国集』に詩を収める。その墓と伝えるものが嵯峨の落柿舎の西にあり,俗に姫明神と称される。

(村井康彦)

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