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Essays and Essays on Japanese Literature OTOMO no Tabito and YAMANOUE no Okura are bold free translations of poems composed in Dazai-fu, Kyushu. They are essays that reread the true feelings of people who lived in the 8th century as modern literature. In 2006, he added and revised "Manyo Bito no Tsukushi" (The Tsukushi of the Manyo Bito) serialized in the culture section of Nishinihon Shimbun. The author is a professor of literature at Nara University (Department of Japanese literature) and visiting professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies. He is known as a leading researcher of Manyoshu.