Yasunori Kamo - Kamo no Yasunori

Japanese: 賀茂保憲 - かものやすのり

Year of death: Sadamoto 2.2.22 (977.3.14)
Year of birth: Enki 17 (917)
A mid-Heian period Onmyodo expert. Son of Kamo Tadayuki. He served as a calendar expert, Onmyodo chief, astronomy expert, chief accountant, and head of the Grain House. According to the Konjaku Monogatarishu, when Yasunori was about 10 years old, he was accompanied by Tadayuki to the Haraiden Hall and witnessed a terrifying demon, which he told his father about. Knowing that it was difficult to see a demon, Tadayuki was amazed at his son's talent and passed on all the secrets of Onmyodo to Yasunori, which is said to have made Yasunori a leading expert in the art. He was in charge of calendars and astronomy, and passed on the calendar to his son Kamo Koei and the astronomy to his disciple Abe no Seimei. From then on, Onmyodo came to be shared between the Kamo and Abe families. Yasunori was also keen to introduce knowledge from China, such as by asking the monk Nichien, who had traveled to China, to revise the calendar sutra. He presided over the rituals of Onmyodo, such as the Mikata-Gotei Festival at Jingoji Temple and the Zokusei Festival (an event to worship the star that corresponds to the year for the sake of good fortune) at Hasshoin Temple, and was active as an Onmyodo expert, fortune-telling and reporting on good and bad luck and disasters based on dates, times and directions. His daughter, Kamo no Onna, was famous as a poet and wrote the "Kamo no Yasunori Onna Shu." He also wrote the "Rekirin," but it no longer exists.

(Hayashi Jun)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：貞元2.2.22(977.3.14)
生年：延喜17(917)
平安中期の陰陽家。賀茂忠行の子。暦博士,陰陽頭,天文博士,主計頭,穀物院別当などを歴任する。『今昔物語集』によれば,10歳ほどのときに忠行に伴われて祓殿に行くと,おそろしい姿の鬼神を目撃し,そのことを父親に語った。鬼神を見ることが難しいことだと知っている忠行は,わが子の天分に驚いて,陰陽道の奥義を残らず伝えたことで,保憲は斯道の第一人者となったという。暦道と天文を司り,暦道を子の賀茂光栄に,天文道を弟子の安倍晴明に伝えた。それ以降,陰陽道は賀茂家と安倍家が分掌するようになったという。入唐僧日延に依頼して新修の暦経を求めるなど,中国の知識の移入にも意を用いた。神護寺で三方五帝祭を行い,八省院で属星祭(開運のためにその年に当たる星を祭る行事)を修すなど陰陽道の祭祀を主宰し,日時や方角の吉凶・災異を占って上申し,陰陽家として活躍した。娘の賀茂女は歌人として有名で,『賀茂保憲女集』がある。著書に『暦林』があるが伝存しない。

(林淳)

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