Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Ō-otome

Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Ō-otome (大伴坂上大嬢) was a Japanese noblewoman and waka poet of the Nara period. Eleven of her poems were included in the Man'yōshū,[1] specifically the ones numbered 581–584, 729–731, 735, 737–738, 1624.[1] She was a daughter of Ōtomo no Sukunamaro[2] and Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume.[2] Her older half-sister was Ōtomo no Tamura no Ō-otome[2] and she was a younger cousin and wife of Ōtomo no Yakamochi.[2] Her family background is given in a left note to poem 759 of the Man'yōshū.[2]

References

Citations
  1. Nakanishi 1985, p. 210.
  2. Nakanishi 1985, p. 209.

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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