Ōmi no Mifune | |
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Native name | 淡海三船 |
Born | 722 |
Died | July 17, 785 |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Period | Nara |
Genre | kanshi |
Relatives | Emperor Kōbun (paternal great-grandfather), Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi, paternal grandfather), Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi, father) |
Ōmi no Mifune (淡海三船, 722—785) was a Japanese scholar and writer of kanshi (poetry in Classical Chinese) and kanbun (prose in Classical Chinese), who lived in the Nara period of Japanese history.
Mifune was born in 722. [1] [2] [3] [4]
His father was Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi), who was a son of Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi), a son of Emperor Kōbun. [1] [2] He was originally an imperial prince, known as Prince Mifune (御船王 or 三船王, Mifune no Ōkimi), [1] but in the first month of 751 was made a commoner and given the surname Ōmi and the title Mahito. [1] [2]
He served as Head of the University (大学頭, daigaku no kami), Professor of Letters (文章博士, monjō hakase) and Steward of the Prosecution Bureau (刑部大輔, gyōbu no taifu). [4]
He died in 785. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 770 he composed the work Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden (唐大和上東征伝), an account of the Chinese monk Jianzhen's work in Japan. [2] [3] [4]
It has been theorized that he was the compiler of the oldest extant Japanese collection of kanshi, the Kaifūsō.> [2] [3]
Some of his poetry was included in the kanshi anthology Keikokushū. [3]
Mifune is credited with determining the canonical Chinese style posthumous names of early emperors who did not have them before his time (they only had Japanese style posthumous names). [3] Between 762 and 764 he set the names of Emperor Jinmu, Emperor Suizei, Emperor Annei and so on. [2]
Based on his research into Buddhist scriptures, in 779 he declared the Shakuma Kaen Ron (釈摩訶衍論), a commentary on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna attributed to Nāgārjuna (龍樹, Ryūju), to be a forgery. [2]
Ōmi no Mifune | |
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Native name | 淡海三船 |
Born | 722 |
Died | July 17, 785 |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Period | Nara |
Genre | kanshi |
Relatives | Emperor Kōbun (paternal great-grandfather), Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi, paternal grandfather), Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi, father) |
Ōmi no Mifune (淡海三船, 722—785) was a Japanese scholar and writer of kanshi (poetry in Classical Chinese) and kanbun (prose in Classical Chinese), who lived in the Nara period of Japanese history.
Mifune was born in 722. [1] [2] [3] [4]
His father was Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi), who was a son of Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi), a son of Emperor Kōbun. [1] [2] He was originally an imperial prince, known as Prince Mifune (御船王 or 三船王, Mifune no Ōkimi), [1] but in the first month of 751 was made a commoner and given the surname Ōmi and the title Mahito. [1] [2]
He served as Head of the University (大学頭, daigaku no kami), Professor of Letters (文章博士, monjō hakase) and Steward of the Prosecution Bureau (刑部大輔, gyōbu no taifu). [4]
He died in 785. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 770 he composed the work Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden (唐大和上東征伝), an account of the Chinese monk Jianzhen's work in Japan. [2] [3] [4]
It has been theorized that he was the compiler of the oldest extant Japanese collection of kanshi, the Kaifūsō.> [2] [3]
Some of his poetry was included in the kanshi anthology Keikokushū. [3]
Mifune is credited with determining the canonical Chinese style posthumous names of early emperors who did not have them before his time (they only had Japanese style posthumous names). [3] Between 762 and 764 he set the names of Emperor Jinmu, Emperor Suizei, Emperor Annei and so on. [2]
Based on his research into Buddhist scriptures, in 779 he declared the Shakuma Kaen Ron (釈摩訶衍論), a commentary on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna attributed to Nāgārjuna (龍樹, Ryūju), to be a forgery. [2]