Aimiya

Aimiya (愛宮; dates unknown) was a Japanese noblewoman and waka poet of the Heian period.

The birth date of Aimiya, a nobleman and waka poet of the mid-Heian period, is unknown.^[1] She was the daughter of Fujiwara no Morosuke^[1] and Princess Gashi [ja].^[1]

She married Minamoto no Takaakira [ja], becoming his second wife.^[1] According to the Kagerō Nikki, she entered religious orders in the sixth month of Anna (969).^[1]

Her date of death is unknown.^[1]

Her poetry has been preserved in such works as the Tōnomine Shōshō Monogatari,^[1] the Kagerō Nikki^[1] and the Saigū no Nyōgo Shū.^[1] One of her poems was also included in the Shūi Wakashū, an imperial anthology.^[1]

• Sugiyama, Shigeyuki (1986). "Aimiya". In Inukai, Kiyoshi; Inoue, Muneo; Ōkubo, Tadashi; Ono, Hiroshi; Tanaka, Yutaka; Hashimoto, Fumio; Fujihira, Haruo (eds.). Waka Daijiten (in Japanese). Tokyo: Meiji Shoin. p. 1. ISBN 4-625-40029-5.