Ō no Yasumaro
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Most Influential Person Across History
Japanese noble
Why Is Ō no Yasumaro Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. He may have been the son of , 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 charged Yasumaro with the duty of writing the Kojiki in 711 using the differing clan chronicles and native myths. It was finished the following year and presented to Empress Genmei in 3 volumes in 712.
