Yamanoue no Okura 山上憶良
official · waka poet · Nara Japan · 660?–733?
An official and poet of the Nara period who had gone to Tang China with an embassy. He wrote of the poor and of children.
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Okura will take his leave now. The children will be crying, and their mother, too, will be waiting for me.
憶良らは今はまからむ子泣くらむそれその母も我をまつらむそMan'yoshu, book 3, a poem made on leaving a banquet
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