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

Biography

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The year of Tanabe no Sakimaro's birth is unknown.[1] His kabane was Fuhito (史).[2]

He may have acted as a court poet to the imperial household, similarly to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and Yamabe no Akahito.[3]

It is unknown when he died.[1]

Poetry

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A total of 44 poems of Sakimaro's are included in the Man'yōshū, including those directly attributed to him and those taken from the Tanabe no Sakimaro no Kashū).[4] Of these, 10 are chōka and 34 tanka.[4] The poems attributed to him directly are all tanka,[2] 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[2][a]

Notes

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  1. ^ 4056–4062 are treated by the compilers as traditional attributions.[2]

References

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Citations

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Works cited

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  • Haga, Norio (1994). "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  • Hashimoto, Tatsuo (2001). "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  • Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8.
  • "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus (in Japanese). Kodansha. 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  • "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. World Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Heibonsha. 1998. Retrieved 2019-03-23.