Abe no Hironiwa explained

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 .

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

Works cited

• Encyclopedia: Imaizumi . Takao . Takao Imaizumi . . Abe no Hironiwa . ja:阿倍広庭 . japanese . 1994 . . 2019-03-21 .
• Book: Nakanishi , Susumu . Susumu Nakanishi

. Susumu Nakanishi . 1985 . Man'yōshū Jiten (Man'yōshū zen'yakuchū genbun-tsuki bekkan) . . Tokyo . paperback . 978-4-06-183651-8 .

• Encyclopedia: Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus . Abe no Hironiwa . ja:阿倍広庭 . japanese . 2015 . . 2019-03-21 . .
• Encyclopedia: . Abe no Hironiwa . ja:阿倍広庭 . japanese . 1998 . Heibonsha . 2019-03-21 . .