Nakatsukasa

Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991) was a Japanese Waka poet from the middle Heian period.

Nakatsukasa was the granddaughter of Emperor Uda and the daughter of poet Lady Ise and Prince Atsuyoshi.

[1] She is one of five women numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

(She married another of the famous thirty-six, Minamoto no Saneakira (源信明).

Many of her poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集), issued in 951.