Ben no Naishi explained

Ben no Naishi (1220s?–ca. 1270?) was a 13th-century Japanese court lady, poet and memoirist.^{[1] [2]}

Ben no Naishi was the daughter of the poet and painter Fujiwara Nobuzane; her younger sister Shosho no Naishi was also a poet. She served at court as a lady in waiting to Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1243 until the Emperor's abdication in 1259. During her time as a lady in waiting she was responsible for the three imperial regalia of Japan.^[3] Her memoir, Ben no naisha nikki, begins with Go-Fukakusa's accession aged three in 1246, and ends (the text is damaged) in 1252.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Hulvey, S. Yumiko. Chieko Irie Mulhern. Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. 1994. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-25486-4. 29–26. BEN NO NAISHI (1220s?–ca. 1270?).
2. Book: Yumiko Hulvey. Steven D. Carter. Medieval Japanese Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 203. 1999. Gale Research International, Limited. 978-0-7876-3097-3. 10–14. Ben no Naishi.
3. Web site: Honolulu Museum of Art : Poet Benno Naishi. honolulumuseum.org. 2018-10-13.
4. Book: George W. Perkins. The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). 1998. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-6388-2. 224.