To the fields in springtime

Yamabe no AkahitoYamabe no Akahito

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To the fields in springtime
Picking violets
Did I come
So welcoming the fields
A single night I slept there.  
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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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