Yamabe no Akahito
Yamabe no Akahito ( Japanese 山 部 赤 人 , later: 山 邊 赤 人 ; bl. 724 - 736 ) was a poet of the Yamato period in Japan . The Manyōshū , an old Japanese anthology, contains 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) from his work. Many of his poems were written while traveling with the Shōmu- tennō between 724 and 736. Yamabe is now idolized as one of the Kami of poetry, known together with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro as Waka Nisei , and is one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry .
The US composer Alan Hovhaness used a text by Yamabe no Akahito from the Manyōshū for his cantata Fuji , Op. 182 (1960, rev. 1964).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamabe no Akahito |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山 部 赤 人 (Japanese); 山 邊 赤 人 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 724 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 736 |