Ō no Yasumaro

Ō no Yasumaro (Japanese太 安 万 侣, Futo no Ason Yasumari no, date of birth unknown; † 723 ) was a Japanese court official and scholar.

Yasumaro was possibly the son Ō no Homages, who took part on the side of Tennō Temmu on Jinshin war. Serving the Empress Gemmei he wrote 712 according to the recollections of Hieda no Are the Kojiki, the oldest historical work of Japanese literature. Presumably, he was also involved in the constitution of the 720 completed Nihonshoki.

1979 was discovered by a chance find on a field in Konoe in Nara prefecture Yasumaros grave, which contained a wooden sarcophagus and an engraved with Chinese characters copper plate.

Swell

• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 226 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Herman Ooms: Imperial politics and symbolics in ancient Japan: the Tenmu dynasty, 650-800. University of Hawaii Press, 2009, ISBN 9780824832353, p 6 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

• Historian of the Middle Ages
• Literature (Japanese)
• Literature ( 8th century )
• Japanese
• Born in the 7th century
• Died 723
• Man