Fuse Kiyonao

• Born: Nara Period
• Died: ??
• Title: Ason
• Japanese: 布勢朝臣清直 (Fuse no Ason Kiyonao)

Kiyokawa was appointed ambassador to China in 778, and won praise from both Tang and Song officials as a talented calligrapher, compared with the pen of Wang Xizhi (321-379).

References

• Wang, Zhenping. Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period, Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press, HI, 2005.