Sei Shōnagon
She is one of the later Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of her poems is included in the "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu". Her contemporaries include Uma no Naishi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shōnagon. A diptych of her exists in "Nihon Meijo Banashi" (Stories of Famous Japanese Women), implying that although little of her work exists into modernity, she was considered a critically important figurehead of the "waka" poetry movement, both as a Poetry Immortal and as a woman of renown.