Kadobe no Iwatari (門部石足) was a Japanese waka poet in the Nara period.
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.
Poems 568 and 845 in the Man'yōshū are attributed to him.
Man'yōgana | Modern Japanese text | Reconstructed Old Japanese | Modern Japanese | English translation |
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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 | ||