Yamabe Akahito

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Yamabe Akahito

Japanese poet

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Japanese literature
The significance of the Man’yōshū
… written by the 8th-century poet Yamabe Akahito are so perfectly conceived as to make the chōka they follow at times seem unnecessary; the concision and evocativeness of these poems, identical in form with the tanka, are close to the ideals of later Japanese poetry. Nevertheless, the supreme works of the…
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… written by the 8th-century poet Yamabe Akahito are so perfectly conceived as to make the chōka they follow at times seem unnecessary; the concision and evocativeness of these poems, identical in form with the tanka, are close to the ideals of later Japanese poetry. Nevertheless, the supreme works of the…
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