Ōno no Azumabito
Template:Japanese name Ōno no Azumabito (大野 東人, died December 7, 742) was a samurai and Court official of Japan's Nara period.
In 724, he fought alongside Fujiwara no Umakai against the Ebisu people of Mutsu province.
Azumabito was later appointed to the Imperial positions of Chinjufu-shogun (Commander-in-chief of the Defense of the North) and Azechi (Inspector).
He also aided in the suppression of the 740 revolt of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu ( the Dazai shoni of the Dazaifu on Kyushu). The rebellion ended with Fujiwara's defeat and death.[1]
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 71, p. 71, at Google Books.
References
- Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha OCLC 68590081; translated into English in 1909 as Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan" OCLC 672613069
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
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