Abe no Hironiwa

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Abe no Hironiwa (安倍広庭, also written 阿倍広庭) was a Japanese poet from the Nara period who wrote waka (Japanese poems) and kanshi (Classical Chinese poems). He was born in 659 and was the son of Abe no Miushi. In 724, the first year of the Jinki era, he oversaw the funerary rites for Ishikawa no Ōnu-hime. He died in 732 on the 22nd day of the second month, at 74 years old by Japanese counting. Two of his kanshi were included in the Kaifūsō, and four of his waka were included in the Man'yōshū.