Heguri-uji no Iratsume

Japanese waka poet of the Nara period
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IntroJapanese waka poet of the Nara period
PlacesJapan
isPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Female
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Biography

Heguri-uji no Iratsume (平群氏女郎) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period.

Poetry

Poems 3931–3942 of the Man'yōshū are attributed to her. All 12 of them are tanka. She sent this group of poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi around Tenpyō 18 (746), when he was governor of Etchū Province.

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