Tanabe no Sakimaro (田辺福麻呂; dates unknown) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period.
Biography
The year of Tanabe no Sakimaro's birth is unknown. His kabane was Fuhito (史).
He may have acted as a court poet to the imperial household, similarly to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro and Yamabe no Akahito.
It is unknown when he died.
Poetry
A total of 44 poems of Sakimaro's are included in the Man'yōshū, including those directly attributed to him and those taken from the Tanabe no Sakimaro no Kashū). Of these, 10 are chōka and 34 tanka. The poems attributed to him directly are all tanka, and are those numbered 4032, 4033, 4034, 4035, 4036, 4038, 4039, 4040, 4041, 4042, 4046, 4049, 4052, 4056, 4057, 4058, 4059, 4060, 4061, and 4062
Notes
- 4056–4062 are treated by the compilers as traditional attributions.
References
Citations
- ^ Haga 1994; Hashimoto 2001; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015; World Encyclopedia 1998.
- ^ Nakanishi 1985, p. 251.
- Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Hashimoto 2001; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015.
- ^ Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Haga 1994; Hashimoto 2001.
Works cited
- "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten (in Japanese). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2014. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- Haga, Norio (1994). "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- Hashimoto, Tatsuo (2001). "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8.
- "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus (in Japanese). Kodansha. 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- "Tanabe no Sakimaro" 田辺福麻呂. World Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Heibonsha. 1998. Retrieved 2019-03-23.