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  1. Is it likely that this reference is to Empress Teishi’s gentlewoman Saishō, also mentioned in Sanekatashū 158, 175, and 183? Those poems and the exchange with Sei Shōnagon suggest that he had relationships with at least two women in Teishi’s court.

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