From the bay at Tago

Yamabe no AkahitoYamabe no Akahito

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From the bay at Tago
I see, when gazing out,
Pure white-
On the heights of Fuji's peak-
The snow has fallenpoetic form :- Tanka
Yamabe no Akahito
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Yamabe no Akahito

700 - 740/JapaneseLittle is known of Yamabe no Akahito other than what we can gain from his fifty poems in the Manyoshu. His thirteen Nagauta poems and thirty-seven Tanka poems were all written between 724 and 737 AD. From these we can see Akahito served as a…

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