Abe no Hirafu (阿倍 比羅夫) was a Japanese military commander, strategist, and politician of the Asuka period.
Some sources say he lived from c.575-664[1] Events in his life are accounted in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, both written several decades after his death.
His father's name and origin are unknown, as the written sources contradict one another, and may have been altered to glorify the genealogy of then-living clans.
His men continued to raid and plunder in Hokkaido and Okushiri Island until 660, bringing numerous trophies and prisoners to court.
In 662 his lord (soon to become the Emperor Tenji) assigned him and the captive prince Buyeo Pung to participate in an expedition to the Korean peninsula to restore the fallen allied kingdom of Baekje.