Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
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He served as court poet to Empress Jitō, creating many works praising the imperial family, and is best remembered for his elegies for various imperial princes. He also composed well-regarded travel poems.
He is ranked as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. Ōtomo no Yakamochi, the presumed compiler of the ''Man'yōshū'', and Ki no Tsurayuki, the principal compiler of the ''Kokin Wakashū'', praised Hitomaro as ''Sanshi no Mon'' (山柿の門) and ''Uta no Hijiri'' (歌の聖) respectively. From the Heian period on, he was often called Hito-maru (人丸). He has come to be revered as a god of poetry and scholarship, and is considered one of the four greatest poets in Japanese history, along with Fujiwara no Teika, Sōgi and Bashō. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2019];, [1927]
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