Prefecture Inukai Yae - Agata Inukai No Yae

Japanese: 県犬養八重 - あがたいぬかいのやえ

Year of death: Tenpyo Hoji 4.5.7 (760.6.24)
Year of birth: Unknown
A court lady who served Empress Komyo in the 8th century and was involved in the copying of Buddhist scriptures. Wife of the man of letters, Kuzui Hironari. Her names were also Inugami no Meifu, Inugami no Meifu, and Inugami Yae. In August 748, Emperor Shomu stayed at Hironari's house, and bestowed the rank of Shogoi no Jo to Hironari and his wife Yae, suggesting that both the couple were highly trusted by the emperor. She graduated as a Myofu with the rank of Jushi no Ge. During this time, she served as a messenger for Empress Komyo's copying of Buddhist scriptures, and before 751, she managed cultivated land adjacent to the Todaiji temple estate in Inukami County, Omi Province, and Haru Village, Aichi County. <References> Shosoin Documents, Neiraku Ibun, Harem and Court Ladies by Nomura Tadao

(Keiko Umemura)

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

Japanese:

没年：天平宝字4.5.7(760.6.24)
生年：生年不詳
8世紀の光明皇后に仕えて写経事業にかかわった女官。文雅の士葛井広成の妻。県犬甘命婦,犬甘命婦,犬甘八重にもつくる。天平20(748)年8月聖武天皇は広成の宅に宿泊し,広成と妻の八重に正五位上を授けていることからみて,夫婦ともに天皇に厚く信頼されていたらしい。命婦従四位下で卒した。この間,光明皇后の写経事業の宣者を務め,また,天平勝宝3(751)年以前に近江国犬上郡,愛知郡覇流村に東大寺領と隣接して墾田を経営している。<参考文献>『正倉院文書』『寧楽遺文』,野村忠夫『後宮と女官』

(梅村恵子)

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