diff --git a/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest b/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
index c5df3c7383c5a..a755f0a44a301 100644
--- a/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/narwhals/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
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 DIST narwhals-2.22.1.tar.gz.provenance 9801 BLAKE2B 292135ea0a646db5d29a90457dcfa1d3a95818106ff7f08cc7cbfcfe4ab82809727eede03da9c9512b9840ca39066e4b8107bebab02b0ee18c79f03f9e438cb5 SHA512 fc108f76456c48cb48e031d2832ac37536a9967b455e8ae809b3deb803981418cbf6ef3316901fd0cabf4d571b6c45e7678d3a9ca421e0bac8669051e47c42a2
+DIST narwhals-2.23.0.tar.gz 656209 BLAKE2B 160d4c985d20267dca45994690f531a7fcd9094de69517aba84c34783006ea60a58a810570a64c25c3ccfd4e906f3eeb221f531e755a79296695942da258ec05 SHA512 72752d620db34fd24fc048adb38ad8988ca88303d4bde18e4a47c21b3924699316141d7d111b2bf578a2a0f55568f9cb3112e27aad485684e53908c4698f2b3e
+DIST narwhals-2.23.0.tar.gz.provenance 10087 BLAKE2B 7ea5b09a6d8bef5e790a7d631a4956205026422ed0b1c313a28e9e50b89c8af63c18b4378f251ea1b9fc47d7d9dc0493bbe64424092f9537f59de06b8733e351 SHA512 8dc8218f971eb799617a0ba7c2f98ceca2d123c00ad3d73cf49eea76070cd9fa5f3b404b7cf661c21754bbb08e46ae16a0340c6fe0e9130fdbda43180477ee0f
diff --git a/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.23.0.ebuild b/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.23.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a7ce3e56842ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/narwhals/narwhals-2.23.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Copyright 2025-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=uv-build
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/narwhals-dev/narwhals
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframe libraries"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/narwhals-dev/narwhals/
+	https://pypi.org/project/narwhals/
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/pandas-1.1.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pyarrow-13.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( hypothesis pytest-env )
+EPYTEST_XDIST=1
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# segfaults
+		# https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/47252
+		'tests/modern_polars/unpivot_test.py::test_unpivot[pyarrow]'
+		# fragile to parallel merges that can cause non-atomic .dist-info
+		# changes
+		tests/system_info_test.py::test_get_deps_info
+	)
+
+	epytest --runslow --constructors="pandas,pandas[nullable],pandas[pyarrow],pyarrow"
+}