Hachijō-in Takakura

Hachijō-in no Takakura (八条院高倉, c. 1176 - c. 1248) (believed to be the same person referred to as Takakura-dono, and Kunyo) was a waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the early Kamakura period.

[1] She is designated as a member of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (新三十六歌仙, Shinsanjūrokkasen).

[2] Originally, she served as a lady in waiting to Hachijo-in, who was the third of Emperor Go-Toba's daughters.

She took the name Kunyo, and resided primarily at Shokutei-in on the grounds of the Daigoji temple complex at Kyoto, later moving to live at Hokkeji.

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