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- Koshinokuni Museum of Literature
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Koshinokuni Museum of Literature
[Koshinokuni Museum of Literature] The announcement of the winner of the third YAKAMOCHI MEDAL
In 2017, Toyama Prefecture established the YAKAMOCHI MEDAL to recognize the achievements of prominent poets around the world, in commemoration of the 1,300th anniversary of the birth of Otomo no Yakamochi. Yakamochi was a representative poet of the Manyoshu, the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry, and composed numerous excellent poems while he was working here as governor of Etchu (currently k...
