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An accomplished poet, the ''[[Man'yoshu]]'' contains six of his works, with others in the collection ''Yearnings for the Ancient Chinese Style''.

An accomplished poet, the ''[[Man'yoshu]]'' contains six of his works, with others in the collection ''Yearnings for the Ancient Chinese Style''.

Along with three of his brothers, Umakai died in a nationwide outbreak of smallpox that killed numerous aristocrats, and it is suggested in the Cambridge History of Japan, "approximately one-third of the entire population perished during those two years."  At his death he held Senior 3rd rank and was an Adviser of the State Council, Minister of Ceremonies, and concurrent Director of the [[Dazaifu]].

Along with three of his brothers, Umakai died in a nationwide outbreak of smallpox that killed numerous aristocrats, and it is suggested in the Cambridge History of Japan, "approximately one-third of the entire population perished during those two years."<ref>Delmer M. Brown, John Whitney Hall, et al (eds.), ''The Cambridge History of Japan'', vol 1 (1988), 250-251.</ref> At his death he held Senior 3rd rank and was an Adviser of the State Council, Minister of Ceremonies, and concurrent Director of the [[Dazaifu]].

==References==

==References==

* Mark C. Funke, "Monumenta Nipponica", "Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki"

* Mark C. Funke, "Monumenta Nipponica", "Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki"

* 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.

* 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.

[[Category:Nara Period]]

[[Category:Nara Period]]

[[Category:Nobility]]

[[Category:Nobility]]

[[Category:Diplomats]]

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