Tanabe no Sakimaro (田辺福麻呂; dates unknown) was a Japanese '' waka'' poet of the

Nara period The of the history of Japan covers the years from CE 710 to 794. Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara). Except for a five-year period (740–745), when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the cap ...

Biography

The year of Tanabe no Sakimaro's birth is unknown. His '' kabane'' was Fuhito (史). He may have acted as a court poet to the imperial household, similarly to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and

Yamabe no Akahito Yamabe no Akahito (山部赤人 or 山邊赤人) (fl. 724–736) was a poet of the Nara period in Japan. The ''Man'yōshū'', an ancient anthology, contains 13 '' chōka'' ("long poems") and 37 ''tanka'' ("short poems") of his. Many of his poems ...

. It is unknown when he died.

Poetry

A total of 44 poems of Sakimaro's are included 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 ...

'', including those directly attributed to him and those taken from the '' Tanabe no Sakimaro no Kashū)''. Of these, 10 are '' chōka'' and 34 ''

tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Etymology Originally, in the time of the ''Man'yōshū'' (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term ''tanka'' was used to distinguish "short poem ...

''. The poems attributed to him directly are all ''tanka'', and are those numbered 4032, 4033, 4034, 4035, 4036, 4038, 4039, 4040, 4041, 4042, 4046, 4049, 4052, 4056, 4057, 4058, 4059, 4060, 4061, and 4062

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