the mists rise over

Yamabe no AkahitoYamabe no Akahito

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The mists rise over
The waters at Asuka;
Memory does not
Pass away so easily.~~
Asuka gawa
Kawa yodo sarazu
Tatsu kiri no
Omoi sugu beki
Koi ni aranuku ni
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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