"Ō no Yasumaro, Junior 4th Grade Lower, 5th Grade Order of Merit, who lived in the 4th Ward of 4th Street in the Right Capital. Yasumaro was a Japanese nobleman and chronicler of folklore and myth who is most remembered for his work on the Kojiki, and his likely work on the Nihon, both of which were early Japanese chronicles of folklore, mythology and the Japanese creation myth. Its engraving reads: 左京四條四坊従四位下勲五等太朝臣安萬侶以癸亥 年七月六日卒之 養老七年十二月十五日乙巳 Who died in 6th day of the 7th month of 7th year of Yōrō the 15th day of 12th month Ki no Tomi" Yasumaro appears in the video game Toukiden: The Age of Demons as a mitama (a soul of a hero from Japanese history). On Januthe grave of Ō no Yasumaro was unearthed in a tea plantation in Konose Ward of Nara City. Yasumaro became clan head in 716, and died in 723. Review: It was an excellent idea to attempt a more accessible translation of the Kojiki, Japans oldest published chronicle, especially as this has enjoyed. Yasumaro most probably also played an active role in compiling the Nihon Shoki, which was finished in 720. lieutenant was finished the following year in 712. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Empress Genmei (r 707-721) charged Yasumaro with the duty of writing the Kojiki in 711 using the differing clan chronicles and native myths. The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters. He is most famous for compiling and editing, with the assistance of Hieda no Are, the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history. He may have been the son of Ō no Honji (多 品治), a participant in the Jinshin War of 672.Īugust 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler.
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