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Hitomaro in a sentence
Context around Hitomaro
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hitomaro
- In this selection, "hitomaro" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, portraying, fame, tanka, makes, grew and placed stand out and add context to how "hitomaro" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be supposed hitomaro grew up and contemporary to hitomaro s time. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hitomaro" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hitomaro
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It can be supposed Hitomaro grew up in an artistic atmosphere. (11 words)
Fame Hitomaro's contribution to the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu commemorated in an inscription near Mount Ogura, Kyoto. (17 words)
As there are no historical sources contemporary to Hitomaro's time, these historicity of these documents are difficult to verify. (20 words)
While examples of such expressions of the emperor as an ascendant divinity do appear in ancient historical works and folk songs, they are featured so prominently in Hitomaro's works as to make him stand out among all other contemporary poets. (41 words)
The group of Hitomaro's poems which can be dated within a certain period does overlap approximately with Empress Jitō's ascension and death, and so it is thought that the empress was a motivational force for Hitomaro's poetry. (40 words)
According to the Japanese scholar Itō Haku, however, this farewell poem is a folk drama portraying Hitomaro's own death, and the theory that the poem is a later counterfeit has also been suggested. (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
The group of Hitomaro's poems which can be dated within a certain period does overlap approximately with Empress Jitō's ascension and death, and so it is thought that the empress was a motivational force for Hitomaro's poetry.
According to the Japanese scholar Itō Haku, however, this farewell poem is a folk drama portraying Hitomaro's own death, and the theory that the poem is a later counterfeit has also been suggested.
As there are no historical sources contemporary to Hitomaro's time, these historicity of these documents are difficult to verify.
Fame Hitomaro's contribution to the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu commemorated in an inscription near Mount Ogura, Kyoto.
Family background The Kakinomoto clan into which Hitomaro was born was an aristocratic court clan of middling prestige and rank.
Further, such expressions quickly declined in use after Hitomaro, as the national enforcement of ritsuryō regulations between Emperor Temmu's reign and Jitō's court had encouraged him.
In 708, Zokunihongi reports that a "Kakinomoto no Saru" (another member of the Kakinomoto clan) died; the Japanese thinker Umehara Takeshi has suggested that this Saru (柿本佐留) and Hitomaro were the same person.
In his tanka, Hitomaro makes use of nearly 140 makurakotoba, among which half are not seen in previous works, which attests to his originality.
It can be supposed Hitomaro grew up in an artistic atmosphere.
Regardless if the contents are fact or fiction, Hitomaro placed emphasis on married life together, and the love poems capture his expressive nature.
While examples of such expressions of the emperor as an ascendant divinity do appear in ancient historical works and folk songs, they are featured so prominently in Hitomaro's works as to make him stand out among all other contemporary poets.