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Sagami (相模, dates unknown but born c. 1000), also known as Oto-jijū (乙侍従), 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 (相模集).
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Biography
She was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu.
She was married to Ōe no Kin'yori (大江公資, also read Kinsuke.), the governor of Sagami Province. She served Prince Shūshi (脩子内親王, Shuushi-naishinnou), 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:
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