Sei Shōnagon, or Seijo, was a Japanese author, poet, and court lady who served the Empress Teishi around the year 1000, during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.
Sei Shōnagon, illustration from an issue of Hyakunin Isshu (Edo period)
Sei Shōnagon in a later 13th-century drawing
Sei Shōnagon in a later 17th-century drawing
Sei Shōnagon, drawing by Kikuchi Yosai (1788–1878)
Fujiwara no Sanekata was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He left a private waka collection, the Sanekata-shū.
Fujiwara no Sanekata, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.