Ben no Menoto (弁乳母), (year of birth and death unknown) was the menoto of Princess Teishi, the daughter of Emperor Sanjō.
Her real name was Fujiwara no Akiko.
Ben no Menoto was the menoto (wetnurse) if Princess Teishi.
She began her service in 1013, and was supposedly on good terms with Suō no Naishi.
She was also a poet, and her poems are collected in the Goshūi Wakashū[1] 白川の近きわたりにちる花は梢に懸る波かとぞみる Shirakawa no chikaki watari ni chiru hana wa kozue ni kakaru nami ka to zo miru The flowers that fall at the approach of the Shirakawa River are like waves on the treetops.