Prince Abo

Japanese: 阿保親王 - あぼしんのう

Year of death: 22 October 1842 (27 November 842)
Year of birth: Enryaku 11 (792)
He was the first child of Emperor Heizei in the early Heian period, and his mother was Fujiko Kuzui (also known as Bancho Fujihime). He was implicated in the Kusuko Incident in September 810 and demoted to Dazai Gonsochi (his older brother Prince Takaoka was deposed as Crown Prince), but was pardoned and returned to Kyoto in 824. While in Dazaifu (Dazaifu City), he gave birth to Nakahira and Yukihira, but after returning to Kyoto he married Princess Ito (the daughter of Emperor Kanmu), with whom he had a son, Narihira. In 1703, he petitioned the shogunate, requesting that his sons be given surnames in the same way as Prince Takaoka's sons and daughters, and Nakahira, Yukihira and Morihira were given the surname Ariwara no Ason. He had other children, such as the main family, but their mothers were different from those of Nakahira and Narihira. He served as governor of Kazusa, Shimousa, Kozuke, and Shimotsuke, the provinces to which the prince was appointed, and in July 842, when Ban Takemine, who was a sword-holder at the Shungu-bo, and Tachibana Hayasaka, the governor of Tajima, plotted a rebellion, he was asked by Takemine to step in, but the prince himself informed the Empress Dowager Tachibana Kachiko, and the plan ended in failure (the Jowa Incident). There are things said to be his grave in Ashiya City and elsewhere.

(Murai Yasuhiko)

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

Japanese:

没年：承和9.10.22(842.11.27)
生年：延暦11(792)
平安初期の平城天皇の第一子で母は葛井藤子(番長藤姫とも)。弘仁1(810)年9月の薬子の変に連座して大宰権帥に左遷され(兄高岳親王は廃太子),天長1(824)年,許されて帰京した。大宰府(太宰府市)にある間に仲平,行平らをもうけたが,帰京後伊都内親王(桓武天皇の皇女)と結婚,その間に業平をもうけている。天長3年上奏し,高岳親王の男女と同様,子息の改賜姓を願い,仲平,行平,守平らに在原朝臣を賜姓された。子としては他に本主がいたが,母は仲平や業平らのそれとも別である。親王任国の上総をはじめ下総,上野,下野大守を歴任,承和9(842)年7月春宮坊帯刀の伴健岑,但馬権守橘逸勢らが謀反を企てたとき,健岑から請われたが,親王自身が太皇太后橘嘉智子に密告し,ことは失敗に帰した(承和の変)。墓と伝えるものが芦屋市などにある。

(村井康彦)

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