Otomae

Otomae (乙前, 1085 – 1169) was a Japanese singer. She was a virtuoso performer of the popular songs of that period – imayō (今様) – and was the foremost authority on the form, which had been passed down through generations of female teachers. In her seventies, she passed on her knowledge to the seventy-seventh emperor, Go-Shirakawa, who collected the works in the popular anthology, Songs to Make the Dust Dance on the Beams (Ryōjin Hishō 梁塵秘抄).^[1]^[2]

References

^ Yung-Hee Kim (1994), Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin Hishō of Twelfth-century Japan, University of California Press, pp. 19–20, ISBN 9780520080669
^ J. Michele Edwards (2001), "Women in Music to ca. 1450", in Karin Pendle (ed.), Women & Music: A History, Indiana University Press, p. 36, ISBN 9780253338198

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[1] Yung-Hee Kim (1994), Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin Hishō of Twelfth-century Japan, University of California Press, pp. 19–20, ISBN 9780520080669

[2] J. Michele Edwards (2001), "Women in Music to ca. 1450", in Karin Pendle (ed.), Women & Music: A History, Indiana University Press, p. 36, ISBN 9780253338198

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Individuals and groups of Japanese poets	Japanese poets (category list) Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry Rokkasen
Individual poems	Articles with poems