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Ō no Yasumaro

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Portrait of Ō no Yasumaro by Kikuchi Yōsai (19th century)

Template:Japanese name Ō no Yasumaro (太 安万侶, ?-723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. He may have been the son of Ō no Homuji (多品治), a participant in the Jinshin War of 672.[1]

He is most famous for compiling and editing, with the assistance of Hieda no Are, the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history. Empress Genmei (r. 707-721) charged Yasumaro with the duty of writing the Kojiki in 711 using the differing clan chronicles and native myths. It was finished the following year in 712.[2]

Yasumaro most probably also played an active role in compiling the Nihon Shoki, which was finished in 720 A.D.[2][3]

Yasumaro became clan head in 716, and died in 723.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Philippi (1968:546)
  2. ^ a b Obunsha Japanese Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
  3. ^ Aston (1995:xv)

References

  • Aston, W G (1995). Nihongi : chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A. D. 697. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Philippi, Donald L. (1968). Kojiki. Tōkyō: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-8600-8320-9.
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