Ōmi no Mifune
Ōmi no Mifune 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.
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Ōmi no Mifune
Kikuchi Yōsai · Japanese book "前賢故実"（Zenken-Kojitsu) · Public domain
- Name
- Ōmi no Mifune
- Born
- 722
- Died
- 785 7 17
- Occupation
- poet
- Teachers
- Dao-xuan
- Known for
- Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden
- Languages
- Classical Chinese
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Ōmi no Mifune 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.
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Ōmi no Mifune (born 722) was a poet. The poet held the positions of Daigaku-no-kami and monjō hakase.
Among the works is Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden. Languages used include Classical Chinese.
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• Name — Ōmi no Mifune • Native Name — 淡海三船 • Born — 722 • Died — 785 7 17 • Language — Classical Chinese • Period — Nara • Genre — kanshi • Relatives — Emperor Kōbun (paternal great-grandfather), Prince Kadono, Prince Ikebe
Birth and ancestry
Birth and ancestry
Mifune was born in 722. His father was Prince Ikebe, who was a son of Prince Kadono, a son of Emperor Kōbun. He was originally an imperial prince, known as Prince Mifune, but in the first month of 751 was made a commoner and given the surname Ōmi and the title Mahito.
Political career
Political career
He served as Head of the University, Professor of Letters and Steward of the Prosecution Bureau.
Death
Death
He died in 785.
Literary career
Literary career
In 770 he composed the work Tō Daiwajō Tōseiden, an account of the Chinese monk Jianzhen's work in Japan. It has been theorized that he was the compiler of the oldest extant Japanese collection of kanshi, the Kaifūsō. Some of his poetry was included in the kanshi anthology Keikokushū.
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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). Between 762 and 764 he set the names of Emperor Jinmu, Emperor Suizei, Emperor Annei and so on. Based on his research into Buddhist scriptures, in 779 he declared the Shakuma Kaen Ron, a commentary on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna attributed to Nāgārjuna, to be a forgery.
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- 1.Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten article "Ōmi no Mifune" (pp. 410-411, author: Noriyuki Kojima).
- 2.Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten article "Ōmi no Mifune". Britannica.
- 3.MyPaedia article "Ōmi no Mifune". Hitachi.
- 4.Daijisen entry "Ōmi no Mifune". Shogakukan.
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