Uma no Naishi

Uma no Naishi (馬内侍, 949–1011) was a Japanese waka poet and noble from the middle Heian period.

She is enumerated as one of the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry alongside famous authors, poets, and contemporaries Sei Shōnagon and Murasaki Shikibu.

Naishi, as a contemporary and follower of Shōnagon,[1] was a lady of the same court in Heian period Japan, and bettered her knowledge of waka poetry through her connection to Shōnagon, who was famously known for her waka poetry as well as her novel of courtly observations, The Pillow Book (枕草子, makura no sōshi).

Shōnagon was a notorious rival of fellow Immortal of Poetry, Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji.

siranu ni oFuru uki nunaFa kurusi ya kokoro Fito sirezu nomi All unnoticed grows A floating water shield?