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Izumi Shikibu （dates unknown) was a poet of the mid-Heian period.

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The generally accepted theory puts her birth around 978. She is regarded as one of the Medieval 36 Immortal poets.

She was a daughter of the governor of Echizen, OE no Masamune. She became TACHIBANA no Michisada, Izumi-no-kuninokami's wife, and was called 'Izumi Shikibu,' this being a combination of the country of her husband's post and the name of her father's office.

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Although their marriage later failed, the daughter born between them--KOSHIKIBU no Naishi--inherited her mother's poetic gifts.

She was said to be one of the ladies-in-waiting in attendance on Empress Shoshi (also read as Masako) and to have been called Omotomaru at first, but there are also theories that contradict this assertion.

While she was still Michisada's wife, her love affair with the third son of Emperor Reizei, Prince Tametaka (977 - 1002), became the gossip of the court, and she was disowned by her father for lovin