Heguri-uji no Iratsume

Heguri-uji no Iratsume (平群氏女郎) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period.

Poetry

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Poems 3931–3942 of the Man'yōshū are attributed to her.[1] All 12 of them are tanka.[1] She sent this group of poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi around Tenpyō 18 (746), when he was governor of Etchū Province.[1]

‘A thousand years, you said,

As our two hearts melted.

I look at the hand you held

And the ache is too hard to bear'[2]

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c Nakanishi 1985, p. 273.
  2. ^ Paterson, Don (2012-01-06). The Picador Book of Funeral Poems. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-0423-7.

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