Little is known of her except what is preserved in her 29 surviving poems in the Man'yōshū; all these were love poems addressed to her lover Ōtomo no Yakamochi who compiled the Man'yōshū (and who is known to have had at least 14 other lovers and have broken up with her). Nonetheless, her love poems made her famous and inspired a later generation of female poets like Izumi Shikibu or Ono no Komachi.[1]
Poetry
wa ga yado no yujagekusa no shiratsuyu no kenugani moto na omoyuru kamo
In the loneliness of my heart I feel as if I should perish Like the pale dew-drop Upon the grass of my garden In the gathering shades of twilight.[2]
References
Sources
Page 141 of Women Poets of Japan, 1977, Kenneth Rexroth, Ikuko Atsumi, ISBN0-8112-0820-6; previously published as The Burning Heart by The Seabury Press.
^"The entranced eroticism of her poems to Yakamochi were imitated by the great women poets of the 9th and 10th centuries, notably Izmi Shikibu and Ono no Komachi." Women poets of Japan.
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