Kadobe no Iwatari explained

Kadobe no Iwatari (門部石足) was a Japanese waka poet in the Nara period.

Biography

Little is known of the life of Kadobe no Iwatari. His kabane was Muraji. In Tenpyō 1 (729) he was working as an official in Chikuzen. The following year he participated in a plum blossom-viewing party at the residence of Ōtomo no Tabito, then the governor (一大宰帥 ichi Dazai no sochi) of Dazaifu.

Poetry

Poems 568 and 845 in the Man'yōshū are attributed to him.

Man'yōganaModern Japanese textReconstructed Old JapaneseModern JapaneseEnglish translation

宇具比須能

麻知迦弖尓勢斯

宇米我波奈

知良須阿利許曽

意母布故我多米

鴬の

待ちかてにせし

梅が花

散らずありこそ

思ふ子がため

uguisu no

machikate ni seshi

ume ga hana

chirazu ari koso

omou ko ga tame

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