Ben no Naishi

Ben no Naishi was a 13th-century Japanese court lady, poet and memoirist. Ben no Naishi was the daughter of the poet and painter Fujiwara Nobuzane; her younger sister Shosho no Naishi was also a poet. She served at court as a lady in waiting to Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1243 until the Emperor's abdication in 1259.