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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.[1] He was the son of Abe no Miushi [ja].[2]

In the first year of Jinki (724) he oversaw the funerary rites for Ishikawa no Ōnu-hime (石川大蕤比売).[3]

Hironiwa died in 732,[4] on the 22nd day of the second month.[5] At the time of his death he was 74 by Japanese reckoning.[6]

Poetry

Two of his kanshi (poems in Classical Chinese) were included in the Kaifūsō,[6] and four of his waka (poetry in Classical Japanese) were included in the Man'yōshū.[6]

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