Kadobe no Iwatari

Kadobe no Iwatari (門部石足) was a Japanese waka poet in the Nara period.

Biography

Little is known of the life of Kadobe no Iwatari. His kabane was Muraji.^[1] In Tenpyō 1 (729) he was working as an official in Chikuzen.^[1] The following year he participated in a plum blossom-viewing party at the residence of Ōtomo no Tabito,^[1] then the governor (一大宰帥 ichi Dazai no sochi) of Dazaifu.^[1]

Poetry

Poems 568 and 845 in the Man'yōshū are attributed to him.^[1]

Man'yōgana^[2]	Modern Japanese text^[2]	Reconstructed Old Japanese^{[citation needed]}	Modern Japanese^{[citation needed]}	English translation^{[citation needed]}
宇具比須能麻知迦弖尓勢斯宇米我波奈知良須阿利許曽意母布故我多米	鴬の待ちかてにせし梅が花散らずありこそ思ふ子がため		uguisu no machikate ni seshi ume ga hana chirazu ari koso omou ko ga tame

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