Hirosada Minamibuchi - Hirosada Minamibuchi

Japanese: 南淵弘貞 - みなぶちのひろさだ

Year of death: September 19, 10 (November 4, 833)
Year of birth: 776
A nobleman and scholar in the early Heian period. The eldest son of Yamatonokami Sakata Natemaro and the daughter of Tsukimoto no ro. His talent was recognized and he became a literary scholar at a young age, and during the time of Emperor Junna's Crown Prince he served as a scholar, the Minister of the Imperial Household, and the Minister of Justice, and in 831 he was promoted to Junior Third Rank. During this time he participated in the compilation of the Keikokushu, which also included his own poems. He was one of the selectors of the Ryo Gikai. His original clan name was Okinaga Masato, and he was called Tsukimoto no Kimi on his mother's side for a time, and then Sakata on his father's side. In December 823, he was allowed to change his surname along with his younger brother Nagakawa. The Montoku Jitsuroku records that he was granted the surname after expressing his "father's will," and it was a long-held wish. The Okinaga clan was a local clan based in Sakata County, Omi Province (Shiga Prefecture), and it is likely that he requested a surname change when Natemaro began serving in Heijo-kyo.

(Takinami Sadako)

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Japanese:

没年：天長10.9.19(833.11.4)
生年：宝亀7(776)
平安前期の公卿,学者。大和守坂田奈弖麻呂と槻本老の娘の長男。才能を認められ若くして文章生となり,淳和天皇の東宮時代の学士,宮内卿,刑部卿などを歴任,天長8(831)年従三位。この間『経国集』の編纂に加わり,自身の詩も採られている。『令義解』の選者のひとり。もとの氏姓は息長真人といい,一時期母方の槻本公を称したあと父方の坂田となり,弘仁14(823)年12月弟の永河と共に改姓が許された。『文徳実録』には「父の先志」を陳べて賜ったとあり,改姓は宿願であった。息長氏は近江国坂田郡(滋賀県)に本拠を置く地方豪族で,奈弖麻呂が平城京に出仕するにおよび改姓を願ったものであろう。

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