Akazome Emon

Akazome Emon

0955 – 1040

Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 was a Japanese waka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period. She is a member both of the Thirty Six Elder Poetic Sages 中古三十六歌仙 Chūko Sanjūrokkasen and the Thirty Six Female Poetic Sages 女房三十六歌仙 Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen.