Ō no Yasumaro

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

Yasumaro was possibly the son of Ō no Homages who took part in the Jinshin War on the side of the Tennō Temmu . In the service of Empress Gemmei , he wrote the Kojiki , the oldest historical work of Japanese literature, based on the memoirs of Hieda no Are . Presumably he was also involved in the constitution of the Nihonshoki , which was completed in 720 .

In 1979, Yasumaro's tomb was discovered by chance in a field in Konoe, Nara Prefecture , which contained a wooden sarcophagus and a copper plate engraved with Chinese characters.

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