Poems and Songs of Yamato Takeru

This page serves as a list of all the songs and poems of Yamato Takeru.

Poems and Songs of Yamato Takeru

Sakawori Palace

Staying at Sakawori Palace he composed a song at night time which went as follows:

Since I passed Tsukuba,
And Nihibari,
How many nights have I slept?

Man in charge of the lights responding to him saying:

Counting the days –
Of nights there are nine nights,
Of days there are ten days.

Finding a Forgotten Sword on a Tree

Near the end of his life he rediscovered a sword against a tree he had once left there and forgotten.

Oh! Thou single pine-tree!
Thou art right opposite
To Ohari –
Ah me- thou single pine-tree!
If thou wert a man,
Garments I would clothe thee with,
A sword I would gird on thee.¹

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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