Fujiwara no Hamanari

• Period: Nara Period
• Occupation: Dazai no Sōtsu
• Family: Fujiwara no Maro (father)
• Birth: 711AD
• Death: 790AD

Fujiwara no Hamanari

Fujiwara no Hamanari (藤原 浜成) was a member of the Fujiwara Clan living from 711-790AD. In 781 he recieved the title of Dazai no Sōtsu and also authored Tenshō, a chronological history of Japan.¹

He is the son of Fujiwara no Maro.²

Footnotes

1. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.
2. Rabinovich, J. (1991) “Wasp and Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari’s Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772). Also lnown as Kakyō Hyōshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on the Canons of Poetry)”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol.51, No.2 pp.471-560

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