Kakimoto Saru - The monkey under the persimmon

…Poet of the Man'yoshu. Although his birth and death years and career are unknown, his main works were composed between 689 and 700 (Jitō 3rd year - Monmu 4th year). As many of his works are elegies for the death of princes and princesses, or for accompanying the emperor on his journeys, he is considered to have been a court poet who served the imperial court with poetry. There are 16 long poems and 61 short poems in the Man'yoshu that are clearly attributed to Hitomaro, and about 370 poems, both long and short, are said to be in the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection. He is the greatest poet in the Man'yoshu in terms of both quantity and quality, and his bold and rhetorically exhaustive style is considered to be unique in the history of Japanese poetry. …

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…《万葉集》の歌人。生没年，経歴とも不詳ながら，その主な作品は689‐700年(持統3‐文武4)の間に作られており，皇子，皇女の死に際しての挽歌や天皇の行幸に供奉しての作が多いところから，歌をもって宮廷に仕えた宮廷詩人であったと考えられる。人麻呂作と明記された歌は《万葉集》中に長歌16首，短歌61首を数え，ほかに《柿本人麻呂歌集》の歌とされるものが長短含めて約370首におよぶ。質量ともに《万葉集》最大の歌人で，さらにその雄渾にして修辞を尽くした作風は日本詩歌史に独歩する存在とみなされる。…

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