Heguri-uji no Iratsume From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heguri-uji no Iratsume (平群氏女郎) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period. Poems 3931–3942 of the Man'yōshū are attributed to her.[1] All 12 of them are tanka.[1] She sent this group of poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi around Tenpyō 18 (746), when he was governor of Etchū Province.[1] ‘A thousand years, you said, As our two hearts melted. I look at the hand you held And the ache is too hard to bear'[2] References Citations 1 2 3 Nakanishi 1985, p. 273. ↑ Paterson, Don (2012-01-06). The Picador Book of Funeral Poems. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-0423-7. Works cited Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8. This article about a Japanese poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte Related Articles~TimelinesTop QsFact Checks
