Ki no Maetsukimi

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ki.

Ki no Maetsukimi (紀 卿) was a Japanese noble and waka poet in the Nara period.

Biography

The details of the life of the poet known as Ki no Maetsukimi (maetsukimi meaning a lord, and Ki being a noble family's name) are unknown.^{[citation needed]} In Tenpyō 2 (730) 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 the Dazaifu.^[1]

Yūkichi Takeda's Man'yōshū Zenchūshaku (万葉集全註釈) speculates that he may have been the same person who died in Tenpyō 10 (738) while serving as co-administrator (大弐, daini) of the Dazaifu.^[1]

Poetry

Poem 815 in the Man'yōshū is attributed to him.^[1]

Man'yōgana[2]	Modern Japanese text[2]	Reconstructed Old Japanese^[citation needed]	Modern Japanese^[citation needed]	English translation^[citation needed]
武都紀多知 波流能吉多良婆 可久斯許曽 烏梅乎乎<岐>都々 多努之岐乎倍米	正月立ち 春の来らば かくしこそ 梅を招きつつ 楽しき終へめ		mutsuki tachi haru no kitaraba kakushi koso ume o okitsutsu tanoshiki oeme

See also

• Reiwa

References

Citations

1. Nakanishi 1985, p. 228.
2. University of Virginia 1999.

Works cited

• Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8.
• University of Virginia (1999). "Manyoshu [Book 5]". Charlottesville: University of Virginia.