Hamanari was also a poet like his father who was a Manyo kajin (poet of Manyoshu), and presented the oldest existing book on poetry in Japan, "Kakyo Hyoshiki (A formulary for verse based on the canons of poetry)" to Emperor Konin. |
万葉歌人であった父麻呂の血を受け継いで、浜成も歌人であり、現存する日本最古の歌学書である『歌経標式』を光仁天皇に撰上している。 |