Abe no Hironiwa (安倍広庭, also written 阿倍広庭) was a Japanese waka and kanshi poet during the Nara period.
Biography
Abe no Hironiwa was born in 659. He was the son of Abe no Miushi [ja].
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) were included in the Kaifūsō, and four of his waka (poetry in Classical Japanese) were included in the Man'yōshū.
References
Citations
- Imaizumi 1994; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015.
- Nakanishi 1985, p. 196.
- Nakanishi 1985, pp. 196–197.
- Imaizumi 1994; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015; World Encyclopedia 1998.
- Imaizumi 1994.
- ^ Nakanishi 1985, p. 197.
Works cited
- Imaizumi, Takao (1994). "Abe no Hironiwa" 阿倍広庭. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- Nakanishi, Susumu (1985). Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) (paperback ed.). Tokyo: Kōdansha. ISBN 978-4-06-183651-8.
- "Abe no Hironiwa" 阿倍広庭. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus (in Japanese). Kodansha. 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- "Abe no Hironiwa" 阿倍広庭. World Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Heibonsha. 1998. Retrieved 2019-03-21.