Michitsuna no Haha

Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha (Japanese藤原 道 纲 母; * 936; ? † June 2 995 ) is the Notname a Japanese poet and diarist.

She was the daughter of Fujiwara no Tomoyasu. 954 she married Fujiwara no Kaneie and bore him his second son Fujiwara no Michitsune after she was named ( haha = mother). She walked slowly behind Kaneies first woman Tokihime that the later regent Michitaka and Michinaga, and the Senshi gave birth to the future wife of the Emperor En'yū. In addition, her husband took another women, so that she was unhappily married later in life. 971 she retired to a temple on the mountain Nishiyama before it was brought back by force by her husband. These experiences, she wrote down in a journal called Kagero Nikki (蜻蛉 日记). She was thus the first who made literature out of their inner struggles and sufferings as a woman. Partly it is therefore also considered to be the founder of the Japanese novel genre of first-person novel ( shishosetsu ).

Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha counts both to the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry of the Middle Ages and to the Thirty-six female immortals of poetry.