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Ō no Yasumaro

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Ō no Yasumaro (太 安万侶; died August 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. He may have been the son of Ō no Honji, a participant in the Jinshin War of 672. He is most famous for compiling and editing, with the assistance of Hieda no Are, the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history. Empress Genmei (r. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ō no Yasumaro is the 4,524th most popular writer (down from 4,114th in 2019). (down from 3,403rd in 2019)

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Among writers, Ō no Yasumaro ranks 4,524 out of 7,302Before her are Olivier de Serres, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Rachel de Queiroz, Bahram Beyzai, H. C. Artmann, and Adam Asnyk. After her are John Piper, Tatyana Tolstaya, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, Almudena Grandes, Willem Elsschot, and Mike Resnick.

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