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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Ō.
Ō no Yasumaro (太 安万侶? ?-723) was a Japanese nobleman, beaureaucrat, 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 the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history written in Chinese. (However, there are older history books in China relating to Japan.) 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.34
Yasumaro became clan head in 716, and died in 723.5
Notes
- ^ Philippi, D: "Kojiki", page 546. University of Tokyo Press, 1968
- ^ Obunsha Japanese Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
- ^ Obunsha Japanese Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
- ^ Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston. page xv (Introduction). Tuttle Publishing. Tra edition (July 2005). First edition published 1972. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6
- ^ Philippi, D: "Kojiki", page 546. University of Tokyo Press, 1968
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