Ō no Yasumaro

• Period: Nara Period
• Occupation: Scribe, Ason
• Family:-
• Birth: –
• Death: AD723

Ō no Yasumaro

Ō no Yasumaro (?-AD723¹) (太 安万侶) (Yasumaro Futo no Ason in the Konin Shiki²
) is known to have been the compiler of the Kojiki from the recitations of Hiyeda no Are², signing his name with ‘Kabane’, the second highest of Court Ranks.¹

His clan name is named after the territory he was from, the wealthiest one; with the Kojiki tracing his lineage back to Jimmu’s middle son.¹

Later in his career, he completed the Nihongi, completed in 720AD it was lain before Empress Genshō by Yasumaro and Prince Toneri.²

Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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