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Created page for 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.

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