| Daini no Sanmi | |
| Occupation: | Lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi, poet, wet nurse to Emperor Go-Reizei |
| Spouse: | Takashina no Nariakira |
| Children: | Son by spouse, and daughter with Fujiwara no Kanetaka (unknown identity) |
| Father: | Fujiwara no Nobutaka |
| Mother: | Murasaki Shikibu |
was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.
She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and . Her given name was,[1] although the kanji can also be read as Kenshi.[2]
In 1017, she joined to the court and served as a lady-in-waiting for Grand Empress Dowager Shoshi, the mother of Emperor Go-Ichijo. She was married to and produced a son in 1038, and she had a daughter with in 1026. She also served as the nurse of Imperial Princess Teishi and Emperor Go-Reizei. When Emperor Go-Reizei ascended the throne, she was promoted.
Thirty-seven or thirty-eight of her poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Goshūi Wakashū onward.
One of her poems was included as the fifty-eighth in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
She also produced a private collection called the .
Some scholars have attributed the final ten chapters of her mother's magnum opus, The Tale of Genji, to her.
. Donald Keene. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart - Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. Columbia University Press. New York. 1999. paperback edition originally published in 1993. 978-0-231-11441-7. 301, 478, 480.