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]

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