Koshikibu no Naishi

was a Japanese waka poet of the early eleventh century. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Biography

大江山 いく野の道の 遠ければ まだふみも見ず 天の橋立 Ōe-yama ikuno no michi no tookereba mada fumi mo mizu ama no hashidate How could my mother help me write this poem? I have neither been to Ōe Mountain nor Ikuno nor have any letters come from her in a place so far away it's called— The Bridge to Heaven.

In later literature Numerous anecdotes about her were incorporated into later and setsuwa collections.

An otogizōshi, Koshikibu, was also written.