Kinohito - Kinohito

Japanese: 紀男人 - きのおひと

Year of death: Tenpyo 10.10.30 (738.12.15)
Year of birth: Unknown. According to the entry "Kaifuso", which contains three Chinese poems by a man, "died at age 57", he was born in Tenmu 11 (682 or 683). An official in the Nara period. Son of Kimaro. Father of Iemori. In December 705, he was ranked as Junior Fifth Rank. In January 721, he was ordered by imperial decree to serve the Crown Prince (later Emperor Shomu) along with Yamanoue Okura, Yamada Onokata, Rakuryou Kawachi, and Ki Kiyohito. This meant that he was in charge of educating the Crown Prince, and shows that he was a first-class man of letters. In January 730, while he was serving as Daini (Vice Minister) in Dazaifu (Dazaifu City), he composed a poem at a plum blossom banquet held at the home of Dazaifu Governor Otomo Tabito, entitled "Shogatsu tachi haruno kitarabakashi koso ume wo inbekkote tanoshiki soreheme" ("New Year's Beginning Spring Comes, a Hidden Plum Blossom Festival, a Happy End"), which is included in Volume 5 of the Manyoshu. He died while serving as Dazai Daini. The Suo Province Tax Register records that his remains were transported to Kyoto by a bone messenger.

(Terasaki Yasuhiro)

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

Japanese:

没年：天平10.10.30(738.12.15)
生年：生年不詳
男人の漢詩3首を収めた『懐風藻』の「享年五十七」という記述に従えば生年は天武11(682または683)年か。奈良時代の官人。紀麻呂の子。家守の父。慶雲2(705)年12月,従五位下。養老5(721)年1月詔により,山上憶良や山田御方,楽浪河内,紀清人らと共に東宮(のちの聖武天皇)のもとに仕えるよう命じられた。これは東宮教育を担当したものであり,一流の文人であったことを示す。天平2(730)年1月大宰府(太宰府市)の大弐(次官)在任中に大宰府長官大伴旅人宅で開催された梅花の宴で詠んだ歌「正月立ち春の来たらばかくしこそ梅を招きつつ楽しき終へめ」が『万葉集』巻5にある。大宰大弐在任中に死去。遺骨は骨送使により京に運ばれたことが周防国正税帳に記されている。

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