Ono Harukaze - Ono Harukaze

Japanese: 小野春風 - おののはるかぜ

Years of birth: unknown. An official in the early Heian period. Son of Ishio. As befitting a family of warriors for generations, he was said to be "more valiant than any man" and spent most of his life as a military officer. In January 871, he was appointed as the governor of Tsushima and was in charge of the defense of the Western Sea, but he applied to have "guards" made to reinforce the functionality of armor and "leather bags" for carrying military supplies made. In March of the same year, he also applied to be granted the sheepskin armor that his father had worn when he put down the rebellion in Mutsu, and was granted. He was later dismissed from his position, but in 878, when the Emishi rebellion (the Gangyo Rebellion) broke out at Akita Castle in Dewa Province, he was selected as the chonju shogun, and it is said that he abandoned his armor and bow and arrows, entered the rebel territory alone, and subjugated the Emishi without bloodshed. This may be due to the fact that he lived in a remote area from an early age and was able to speak the "Yi language" ("Fujiwara no Yasunori Biography"). His poems are included in the "Kokin Wakashu".

(Takinami Sadako)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
平安前期の官人。石雄の子。代々武門の家柄にふさわしく,「驍勇人に超える」といわれ,生涯の大半を武官として過ごしている。貞観13(871)年1月,対馬守に任じられ西海の防備に当たったが,甲冑の機能を補強するための「保侶衣」や軍糧携帯用の「革袋」を作ることを申請している。同12年3月にも,かつて父が陸奥の反乱を平定したときに着用していた羊革甲の下賜を願い出て許されている。のち免官されたが,元慶2(878)年出羽国秋田城で蝦夷の反乱(元慶の乱)が起こるや鎮守将軍に抜擢され,甲冑弓矢を捨ててひとり賊地に乗り込み,無血で蝦夷を服属させたという。これは幼いころから辺境で生活し「夷語」が話せたこと(『藤原保則伝』)によるものであろう。『古今和歌集』に歌を収める。

(瀧浪貞子)

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