- In this Japanese name, the family name is Ō.
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]
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References
- Aston, W G; Terrence Barrow (1995). Nihongi : chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A. D. 697. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6.
- Philippi, Donald L. (1968). Kojiki. Tōkyō: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-8600-8320-9.
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