Prince Toneri

• Period: Nara Period
• Family: Emperor Tenmu (father) Kiyohara no Fukayabu (descendant)
• Occupation: Prince

Prince Toneri

Prince Toneri (舎人親王) oversaw the creation of the Nihongi reputedly laying it before Empress Genshō alongside Ō no Yasumaro in 720AD.¹

He is the ancestor of Kiyohara no Fukayabu.²

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697″. Tuttle Publishing.
2. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.

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