Lady Kasa
Kasa no Iratsume was a Japanese female waka poet of the early 8th century. Little is known of her except what is preserved in her 29 surviving poems in the Man'yōshū; all these were love poems addressed to her lover Ōtomo no Yakamochi who compiled the Man'yōshū (and who is known to have had at least 14 other lovers and to have broken up with her). Nonetheless, her love poems made her famous and inspired a later generation of female poets like Izumi Shikibu or Ono no Komachi.
Lady Kasa
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- Lady Kasa
- Born
- Early 8th century
- Died
- 800
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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- 1.保田與重郎. 萬葉集名歌選釋. 新学社. July 1999. 978-4-7868-0042-9.
- 2.青木一男. 万葉秀歌選. 評論社. 1972.
- 3."The entranced eroticism of her poems to Yakamochi were imitated by the great women poets of the 9th and 10th centuries, notably Izmi Shikibu and Ono no Komachi." Women poets of Japan.
- 4.pg 151 of Seeds in the Heart
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