Takechi no Kurohito (高市黒人) was a Japanese ''
waka'' poet of the
Nara period.
Biography
The year of Takechi no Kurohito's birth is unknown. His ''
kabane'' was
Muraji.
He appears to have spent his career as a low-ranking civil servant.
It is unknown when he died.
Poetry
16 poems in the ''
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...
'' are attributed to him, all of them ''
tanka''. The poems are those numbered 58, 70, 270–277, 279–280, 283, 305, 1718, and 4016.
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Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Man'yō poets
Japanese male poets