was a Japanese waka poet of the early eleventh century.Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Koshikibu no Naishi". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.Mypaedia article "Koshikibu no Naishi". 2007. Hitachi Systems & Services.Digital Daijisen entry "Koshikibu no Naishi". Shogakukan. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.McMillan 2010 : 142 (note 60).Suzuki et al. 2009 : XX.
Biography She was the daughter of Izumi Shikibu and , the governor of Mutsu.
Starting around 1009, she joined her mother in serving Empress Shōshi.
A target of many suitors, she eventually married . They had a child, but she died thereafter, still in her late twenties.
Poetry Four of her poems were included in imperial anthologies such as the Goshūi Wakashū and the Kin'yō Wakashū.
Ōe-yama The following poem by her was included as No. 60 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Japanese textRomanized JapaneseMcMillan 2010 : 167.English translationMcMillan 2010 : 62.大江山 いく野の道の 遠ければ まだふみも見ず 天の橋立Ōe-yama ikuno no michi no tookereba mada fumi mo mizu ama no hashidateHow could my mother help me write this poem? I have neither been to Ōe Mountain nor Ikuno nor have any letters come from her in a place so far away it's called— The Bridge to Heaven.
In later literature Numerous anecdotes about her were incorporated into later and setsuwa collections.
An otogizōshi, Koshikibu, was also written.
References
Bibliography
McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.