a passage by another poet and incorporating it into one's own work, without acknowledgement. Some may be uncomfortable with this technique, considering its resemblance to plagiarism. However, considering the restrictive structure of tanka, the limited subjects poets were allowed to write on, and the closed-off nature of Kyoto at this time, it is not surprising that different poets’ work would gradually begin to sound similar. Also, within Chinese methods of poetry writing which influenced Japanese poets, including someone else's work within one's own was seen as a tribute paid to another author, not an act of stealing. There are differences in the ways scholars translate Shikishi's poetry: Here are Shikishi's spring poems from Sequence A, translated by Sato. A few of her other poems, not included in Sequences A, B, or C: After resigning the vestal’s post at Kamo, on the Day of the Sacred Tree during the festival someone brought her a gift of aoi to offer her. She wrote on it: Among the poems on “Love”: Among the “Miscellaneous” poems: Recognition Shikishi was recognized in fifteen out of twenty-one imperial anthologies. Fujiwara no Shunzei included nine of Shikishi's works in the Senzai Wakashū, the seventh imperial anthology, containing 1,288 poems. The eighth imperial anthology, the Shin Kokin Wakashū, compiled shortly after her death, included forty-nine of her poems. 155 of her poems are incorporated throughout the seventh imperial anthology to the twenty-first. See also Hyakunin Isshu References Kokugo Dai Jiten Dictionary, Shinsou-ban (Revised edition), Shogakukan, 1988. Hiroaki Sato, translator. String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi. University of Hawaii Press, 1993. . Rodd, Laurel Rasplica. “Shikishi Naishinnō.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 203, 1999, pp. 261–264. EBSCO: Biography Reference Bank (H. W. Wilson):517989849 External links photo—from an edition of Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology of waka poems; 89/100 from etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/index/hyaku3euc.html photo—from Hyakunin Isshu card game, modern eras E-text of her poems (in Japanese) Biography—from BookRags 1201 deaths 12th-century births 12th-century Japanese women writers 12th-century Japanese writers Japanese princesses Japanese women poets Year of birth unknown Hyakunin Isshu poets 12th-century Japanese poets Japanese Buddhist nuns 12th-century Buddhist nuns Daughters of emperors