Sarumaru Dayū

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Sarumaru no Taifu, also known as Sarumaru no Dayū (猿丸大夫) was a waka poet in the early Heian period.^{[citation needed]} He is a member of the Thirty Six Poetic Sages (三十六歌仙, Sanjūrokkasen), but there are no detailed histories or legends about him. There is a possibility that there never was such a person. Some believe him to have been Prince Yamashiro no Ōe.

Poetry example

The following waka is attributed to him, a classic autumn poem (秋歌, aki no uta):

Japanese^[1]	Rōmaji^[1]	English translation^[2]
奥山に紅葉踏みわけ鳴く鹿の声きく時ぞ秋はかなしき	Okuyama ni Momiji fumiwake Naku shika no Koe kiku toki zo Aki wa kanashiki	Autumn at its saddest— Rustling through the leaves and moving on alone deep into the mountains, I hear a lonely stag belling for his doe.

This poem is the 215th poem of the Kokin Wakashū, and was also incorporated into Fujiwara no Teika's famous Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, as number 5.

References

^ ^a ^b McMillan 2008, p. 156.
^ McMillan 2008, p. 7.

Sources

McMillan, Peter (2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Foreword by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14398-1.