Sakimori-no-uta is a group of poems written by the Sakimori guards who were deployed on the coast of Kyushu after Taika no Kaishin (The Great Reformation of the Taika Era).
防人歌(さきもりのうた)とは大化の改新の後、九州沿岸の守りについた防人が詠んだ歌である。