Heguri-uji no Iratsume
Heguri-uji no Iratsume (平群氏女郎) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period.
Poetry
[edit]Poems 3931–3942 of the Man'yōshū are attributed to her.[1] All 12 of them are tanka.[1] She sent this group of poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi around Tenpyō 18 (746), when he was governor of Etchū Province.[1]
‘A thousand years, you said,
As our two hearts melted.
I look at the hand you held
And the ache is too hard to bear'[2]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c Nakanishi 1985, p. 273.
- ^ Paterson, Don (2012-01-06). The Picador Book of Funeral Poems. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-0423-7.
Works cited
[edit]- Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8.
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