Kishi Joō
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Kishi Joō (929-985, 徽子女王, also Yoshiko Joō 承香殿女御 Jokyōden Joō or 斎宮女御 Saigū no Nyōgo) was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle of the middle Heian period. She is one of only five women numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
Many of her poems are included in the third Japanese imperial poetry anthology Shūi Wakashū (拾遺和歌集), issued in 1006.