Nijō Ishi/Tameko
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Nijō Ishi/Tameko (Japanese: 二条 為子) was a representative poetess of the Nijō poetic school in the latter half of the Kamakura period. She was rewarded with Junior Third Rank (贈従三位, Zo-Jusanmi) posthumously.[lower-alpha 1] She was a descendant of Fujiwara no Teika, and the daughter of Nijō Tameyo, a great poet. She was the wife of Crown Prince Takaharu-shinnō (later Emperor Go-Daigo-tennō).
Nijō Ishi/Tameko | |
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Crown Princess of Japan | |
Reign | 1308–1311 (1312) |
Native name | 二条為子 |
Born | unknown |
Died | 24 September 1311 or 13 September 1312 |
Noble family | |
Spouse(s) | Crown Prince Takaharu (later Emperor Go-Daigo) |
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Father | Nijō Tameyo |
Occupation | Yūgimon'in (Princess Reishi), wife and lady-in-waiting to Emperor Go-Nijō |
At first, she served as Yūgimon'in to Princess Reishi, and later held an important position as Emperor Go-Nijō's lady-in-waiting. Around this time, the late 1300s, she started courting Imperial Prince Takaharu-shinnō, who was also a master of waka poetry. Following the death of Emperor Nijō in 1308, he became Crown Prince, and she became Crown Princess. She lived happily with Prince Takaharu-shinnō and had Imperial Prince Takanaga (also Takayoshi), and Imperial Prince Munenaga (also Muneyoshi), the most well-known poet of the Southern Court (also head priest of Enryaku-ji /Tendai-zasu ), who died prematurely before he ascended the throne. Emperor Go-Daigo, who ascended the throne after Tameko's death, became a protector of the Nijō poetic school and worked to promote it. As a result, through Ashikawa Takauji, the first shogun of the Ashikawa shogunate and a poet, who admired Emperor Go-Daigo, the Nijō poetic school had been the leading school for more than 500 years in the Middle Ages, early modern period and late modern period.
Her poetic style was described as "gentle poetry" and 71 of her poems were collected in the Shingosen Wakashū (新後撰和歌集, New Later Collection of Waka), an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. She influenced future generations, such as Kanze Nobumitsu’s noh play Momijigari (紅葉狩, Maple Viewing) (mid-Muromachi period). Her kiryoka (travelling poetry) was well received, and a poem about Sumida River was selected in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首), the anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets (1686). In addition to poetry, she had knowledge of Chinese literature and excelled in writing. She was praised as "the wife of honour" ("the great woman") because of her versatile personality.