An early Heian female poet of unknown dates, traditionally said to have been born around 825, likely the daughter of an official in Dewa Province (Akita). Selected as one of the Six Poetic Immortals and Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, she was the foremost poet of her age. Ki no Tsurayuki praised her in the Kokinshu preface—with nuance—as "moving yet not forceful, like a beautiful woman suffering from some ailment." Her celebrated poem in the Hyakunin Isshu—"The color of the flowers has faded, uselessly, while I spent my days in the long rains of the world, gazing at nothing"—weaves together wasted time, fading beauty, and melancholy in a single masterful image. Renowned as a legendary beauty, she appears in the "hundred-night visits" legend: when a suitor offered his love, she challenged him to visit a hundred nights in succession; he reached the ninety-ninth before dying in a snowstorm. This legend was retold across Noh, Kabuki, and popular fiction. Tradition says her later years were spent in decline and wandering, inspiring three major Noh plays about her twilight.