Ōmi no Mifune
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), (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi, paternal grandfather), (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.
Biography[]
Birth and ancestry[]
Mifune was born in 722.[1][2][3][4]
His father was (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi), who was a son of (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 851 was made a commoner and given the surname Ōmi and the title Mahito.[1][2]
Political career[]
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]
Death[]
Literary career[]
In 770 he composed the work (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]
Scholarship[]
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 (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]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten article "Ōmi no Mifune" (pp. 410-411, author: ).
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h article "Ōmi no Mifune". Britannica.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f article "Ōmi no Mifune". Hitachi.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Daijisen entry "Ōmi no Mifune". Shogakukan.
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External links[]
- Ōmi no Mifune on Kotobank.
- 722 births
- 785 deaths
- 8th century in Japan
- 8th-century Japanese poets
- People of Nara-period Japan
- Japanese nobility
- Japanese male poets
- Buddhism in the Nara period
- Kanshi poets