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Creating new entry for Yamato no Nagaoka
* ''Birth: [[698]]''
* ''Death: [[769]]''
* ''Other Names: Yamato no Nagaoka''

Yamato Nagaoka was a leading authority on the Tang legal system in the early [[Nara period]]. He was born to an assistant minister of justice and sent to China as a legal specialist on the diplomatic mission of [[716]]. He stayed only briefly in China, returning to Japan soon after to help author the ''[[Yoro Code|Yōrō Code]]'' compiled in [[718]] (Yōrō 2).

==References==
* Zhenping, Wang. ''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:Nobility]][[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]][[Category:Diplomats]]
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