Sagami (poet)
, also known as , was a Japanese "waka" poet of the mid-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu". She produced a private collection, the "Sagami-shū". Biography. Sagami's dates are unknown, but she was probably born around 1000. Her real name was "Oto-jijū". Her paternal ancestry is unknown, but she was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu. The fourteenth-century work "Chokusen Sakusha Burui" (勅撰作者部類) claims Yorimitsu was her father, but the "Kin'yōshū" includes a "renga" by Yorimitsu and "Sagami's mother" (相模母), so it is also possible he  was her adoptive father. Her mother was a daughter of Yoshishige no Yasuaki, governor of Noto (前能登守慶滋保章). She was married to , during his tenure as the governor of Sagami Province, from which her nickname is derived. She served , one of the sons of Emperor Ichijō. Poetry. 109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the "Goshūi Wakashū". She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. The following poem by her was included as No. 65 in Fujiwara no Teika's "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu": She produced a private collection, the .