Heguri-uji no Iratsume (平群氏女郎) was a Japanese waka poet of the Nara period.
Poems 3931–3942 of the Man'yōshū are attributed to her. [1] All 12 of them are tanka. [1] She sent this group of poems to Ōtomo no Yakamochi around Tenpyō 18 (746), when he was governor of Etchū Province. [1]
‘A thousand years, you said,
As our two hearts melted.
I look at the hand you held
And the ache is too hard to bear' [2]