Abe no Hironiwa (安倍広庭, also written 阿倍広庭) was a Japanese ''

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'' and '' kanshi'' poet during the

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Biography

Abe no Hironiwa was born in 659. He was the son of . In the first year of Jinki (724) he oversaw the funerary rites for Ishikawa no Ōnu-hime (石川大蕤比売). Hironiwa died in 732, on the 22nd day of the second month. At the time of his death he was 74 by Japanese reckoning.

Poetry

Two of his '' kanshi'' (poems in

Classical Chinese Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese (古文 ''gǔwén'' "ancient text", or 文言 ''wényán'' "text speak", meaning "literary language/speech"; modern vernacular: 文言文 ''wényánwén'' "text speak text", meaning "literar ...

) were included in the ''

Kaifūsō The is the earliest extant poetry anthology of literary Sinitic ('' kanshi'') written by Japanese poets. It was compiled in 751. In the brief introduction of the poets, the unknown writer seems sympathetic to Emperor Kōbun and his regents who ...

'', and four of his ''

'' (poetry in

Classical Japanese The classical Japanese language ( ''bungo'', "literary language"), also called "old writing" ( ''kobun''), sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese" is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa pe ...

) were included in the ''

Man'yōshū The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...

''.

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* * * * {{authority control Man'yō poets Japanese male poets 659 births 732 deaths