Kishi Joō

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Kishi Joō (929985, 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.[citation needed] 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, issued in 1006.

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