karitamaro

Updated: August 3, 2026

For Tamuramaro was a direct descendant of that Achi no Omi who, as already related, crossed from China during the Han dynasty and became naturalized in Japan. His father, Karitamaro, distinguished himself by reporting the Dokyo intrigue, in the year 770, and received the post of chief of the palace guards, in which corps his son, Tamuramaro, thereafter served.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era