Otomo no Tabito 大伴旅人

governor-general · waka poet · Nara Japan · 665–731

A poet of the Nara period who served as governor-general of Dazaifu in Kyushu. He left thirteen poems in praise of wine.

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Rather than brood on things that do no good, better, it seems, to drink a cup of cloudy sake.

験なきものを思はずは一坏の濁れる酒を飲むべくあるらし

Man'yoshu, book 3, one of thirteen poems in praise of sake