Kadobe no Iwatari

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Kadobe no Iwatari (門部石足) was a Japanese waka poet in the Nara period.

Biography[edit]

Little is known of the life of Kadobe no Iwatari. His kabane was Muraji.[1] In Tenpyō 1 (729) he was working as an official in Chikuzen.[1] The following year he participated in a plum blossom-viewing party at the residence of Ōtomo no Tabito,[1] then the governor (一大宰帥 ichi Dazai no sochi) of Dazaifu.[1]

Poetry[edit]

Poems 568 and 845 in the Man'yōshū are attributed to him.[1]

Man'yōgana[2] Modern Japanese text[2] Reconstructed Old Japanese[citation needed] Modern Japanese[citation needed] English translation[citation needed]
宇具比須能
麻知迦弖尓勢斯
宇米我波奈
知良須阿利許曽
意母布故我多米
鴬の
待ちかてにせし
梅が花
散らずありこそ
思ふ子がため
uguisu no
machikate ni seshi
ume ga hana
chirazu ari koso
omou ko ga tame

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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.
  • University of Virginia (1999). "Manyoshu [Book 5]". Charlottesville: University of Virginia.