, also known as Ise no Tayà « or Ise no à Âsuke, was a Japanese waka poet active in the later Heian period (early 11th century).
She is one of the later Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of her poems is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Her contemporaries include Uma no Naishi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shà Ânagon. A diptych of her exists in Nihon Meijo Banashi (Stories of Famous Japanese Women), implying that although little of her work exists into modernity, she was considered a critically important figurehead of the waka poetry movement, both as a Poetry Immortal and as a woman of renown.
Her grandfather, Ã Ânakatomi no Yoshinobu, was also an important waka poet.
Her mother, Kura no Myobu, served Fujiwara no Yorimichi, the first son of the powerful Michinaga, so she could get a support and joined to the imperial court. She became friends with Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. She was talented in music, so she was very popular and noble lady-in-waiting who moreover, could write poems and songs.
Only a few of no Taifu's poems have survived into modernity, translated in part due to Waka poetry anthologies:
One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
Below is another of her poems, translated in the Asia-Pacific Journal: