From the morrow
Would I pick new herbs
But in my marked out fields
Both yesterday and today
The snow has kept on falling
Would I pick new herbs
But in my marked out fields
Both yesterday and today
The snow has kept on falling

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…
View profile & all 8 Poems / StoriesThe mists rise overThe waters at Asuka;
The autumn windBlows chill this morn
To the fields in springtimePicking violets
All-knowing,My great lord:
From the bay at TagoI see, when gazing out,