Sagami (相模; dates unknown, but born c. 1000), also known as Oto-jijū (乙侍従), was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū.
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Biography
Sagami's dates are unknown, but she was probably born around 1000. Her real name was Oto-jijū.
Her paternal ancestry is unknown, but she was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu. The fourteenth-century work Chokusen Sakusha Burui (勅撰作者部類) claims Yorimitsu was her father, but the Kin'yōshū includes a renga by Yorimitsu and "Sagami's mother" (相模母), so it is also possible he was her adoptive father. Her mother was a daughter of Yoshishige no Yasuaki, governor of Noto (前能登守慶滋保章).
She was married to Ōe no Kin'yori (大江公資; also read Kinsuke), during his tenure as the governor of Sagami Province, from which her nickname is derived. She served Imperial Princess Shūshi (脩子内親王, Shūshi-naishinnō), one of the daughters of Emperor Ichijō.
Poetry
109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the Goshūi Wakashū. She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
The following poem by her was included as No. 65 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū (相模集).