Abe no Hironiwa

Abe no Hironiwa (安倍広庭, also written 阿倍広庭) was a Japanese waka and kanshi poet during the Nara period.

[1] He was the son of Abe no Miushi [ja].

[2] In the first year of Jinki (724) he oversaw the funerary rites for Ishikawa no Ōnu-hime (石川大蕤比売).

[3] Hironiwa died in 732,[4] on the 22nd day of the second month.

[6] Two of his kanshi (poems in Classical Chinese) were included in the Kaifūsō,[6] and four of his waka (poetry in Classical Japanese) were included in the Man'yōshū.