Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume
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Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700-750) was a minor female Japanese poet, though important in her time [1], with 79 poems in the Man'yōshū. It is believed by Donald Keene and Tsuchihashi (in his Man'yō Kaigan, II, p. 200) that Ōtomo no Tabito sent for Lady Ōtomo in c. 728 to educate his son, Ōtomo no Yakamochi, although her becoming Tabito's mistress or replacing Tabito's recently deceased wife in performing religious ceremonies for the Ōtomo clan have both been suggested as resons for Otomo's summons. Her daughter would later marry Yakamochi.
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- pg 140 of Woman poets of Japan, 1977, Kenneth Rexroth, Ikuko Atsumi, ISBN 0-8112-0820-6; previously published as The Burning Heart by The Seabury Press.
- ^ "..and is generally considered to be the leading woman poet of the early Nara period." Woman poets of Japan
- pg 147 and pg 174-175 of Seeds in the Heart
