Kibi no Makibi

Kibi no Asomi Makibi (吉備 朝臣 真備, 695 – November 3, 775) was a Japanese scholar and noble during the Nara period.

In 717-718, Kibi was part of the Japanese mission to Tang China (Kentōshi) with Abe no Nakamaro[2] and Genbō.

In 751, at the senior fourth rank (upper grade), he received an appointment as vice-ambassador to the Tang dynasty and traveled to China the following year, returning to Japan in 753.

Kibi spent some years in Kyūshū as the assistant administrator of Dazaifu (the principal governmental post on the island); he returned to Nara.

Its purchase by the museum in 1932 directly led to the strengthening of Japanese laws against the removal of cultural properties of particular importance from the country.