Akazome (赤染) means "red-dyed." **Akazome Emon (c. 956-c. 1041)** was the Heian-period waka poet and prose author — **traditionally credited as the author of the *Eiga Monogatari* ("A Tale of Flowering Fortunes")**, the first chronicle in vernacular Japanese covering the Fujiwara regency period. **Friend and contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu** at the imperial court.
Among the **Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry**.
Akazome reduces to seven — the number of Heian chronicler.