Kasanokanamura - Kasanokanamura

Japanese: 笠金村 - かさのかなむら

Years of birth and death unknown. A poet of the Nara period. He appears to have been a minor official, and his career is also unknown. Known only from the Manyoshu, his poems from the first year of Reiki to the fifth year of Tenpyo (715-733) are known. He has 11 long poems and 34 short poems (including works listed as appearing in the Kasa Ason Kanamura Poetry Collection), half of which are poems he wrote when accompanying Emperor Gensho and Emperor Shomu on their imperial journeys. When compared to works by Kurumamochi Sennen and Yamabe no Akahito, who were also active mainly at the imperial court, his works are ranked first, suggesting that he may have been more important than either of them. His elegy for Prince Shiki (Shiki) written in the first year of Reiki (some say in the second year) is dramatically structured through dialogue, showing a unique style, but his poems for accompanying Emperors on imperial journeys are generally flat and lacking in originality. However, his songs for the imperial journey reflect the hedonistic attitude and tastes of the general public at court, and he can be regarded as one of the earliest poets to embody the elegance of the court in the Man'yoshu.

(Norio Haga)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
奈良時代の歌人。微官であったらしく経歴も不明。『万葉集』によってのみ知られ,霊亀1～天平5(715～733)年までの作歌が明らかである。長歌11首,短歌34首(「笠朝臣金村歌集に出づ」などとして掲げられる作を含む)が残り,元正・聖武天皇の行幸に供奉したときの歌が半数を占める。同様に宮廷を中心として活躍した車持千年,山部赤人と並ぶ際には,その作が先に配されるところから,あるいは両者より重きをなしていたかともみられる。霊亀1年(2年説も)の施基(志貴)親王のための挽歌は,対話による劇的な構成をとり,異色ある風をのぞかせているが,行幸従駕歌は,おおむね平板で独創味に乏しい。ただし,その行幸従駕歌は,当時の宮廷人一般の享楽的な態度と嗜好を敏感に反映しており,総じて,『万葉集』において宮廷的な風雅をいちはやく体現した歌人として位置づけられよう。<参考文献>犬養孝,清原和義『万葉の歌人/笠金村』,梶川信行『万葉史の論/笠金村』

(芳賀紀雄)

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