Kadobe no Iwatari

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

References edit

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.

[FOOTNOTENakanishi1985224-1] Nakanishi 1985, p. 224.

[FOOTNOTEUniversity_of_Virginia1999-2] University of Virginia 1999.

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