Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Ōiratsume bzw. Ōotome (大伴坂上大嬢) was a Japanese noblewoman and ''
waka'' poet of the
Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from 710 to 794. Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara). Except for a five-year period (740–745), when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the capita ...
. Eleven of her poems were included in the ''
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...
'', specifically the ones numbered 581–584, 729–731, 735, 737–738, 1624. She was a daughter of
Ōtomo no Sukunamaro and
Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
, also known as Lady Ōtomo of Sakanoue, was a Japanese noblewoman and '' waka'' poet of the early-to-mid Nara period, best known for the inclusion of 84 of her poems in the ''Man'yōshū''. She was the aunt of Ōtomo no Yakamochi.
Life
Ōtomo no ...
. Her older half-sister was
Ōtomo no Tamura no Ōiratsume and she was a younger cousin and wife of
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
was a Japanese people, Japanese statesman and ''waka (poetry), waka'' poet in the Nara period. He was one of the ''Man'yō no Go-taika,'' the five great poets of his time, and was part of Fujiwara no Kintō's .
Yakamochi was a member of the pr ...
. Her family background is given in a left note to poem 759 of the ''Man'yōshū''.
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Man'yō poets
Japanese women poets