Ki no Maetsukimi
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Ki no Maetsukimi (紀 卿) was a Japanese noble and waka poet in the Nara period.
The details of the life of the poet known as Ki no Maetsukimi (maetsukimi meaning a lord, and Ki being a noble family's name) are unknown.[citation needed] In Tenpyō 2 (730) he participated in a plum blossom-viewing party at the residence of Ōtomo no Tabito,[1] then the governor (一大宰帥, ichi dazai no sochi) of the Dazaifu.[1]
Yūkichi Takeda's Man'yōshū Zenchūshaku (万葉集全註釈) speculates that he may have been the same person who died in Tenpyō 10 (738) while serving as co-administrator (大弐, daini) of the Dazaifu.[1]