Yamabe no Akahito

Yamabe is regarded as one of the kami of poetry, and is called Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.

His contemplation of Mount Fuji across Tago Bay became a popular view depicted by ukiyo-e artists, including Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

The American composer Alan Hovhaness used a text by Yamabe from the Man'yōshū in his cantata Fuji, Op.

Shin Kokin Wakashu (New Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry) ・田子の浦に　うち出でてみれば　白妙の　富士の高嶺に 雪は降りつつ Tagonoura ni Uchiide te mire ba Shirotae no Fuji no takane ni Yuki wa furi tsutsu Explanation When you go to Tagonoura and look in the distance, you can see pure white Mt.

At Fujinokuni Tagonoura Minato Park in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, there is a Man’yo kahi.