Ohara no Otoji (大原大刀自)

OHARA no Otoji (year of birth and death unknown) was a daughter of FUJIWARA no Kamatari. She was also called Ioe no iratsume, or FUJIWARA no Otoji (Bunin FUJIWARA). She was a younger sister of FUJIWARA no Fuhito, HIKAMI no Otoji. She was a Bunin/Fujin (consort of the emperor) of the Emperor Temmu, and was Imperial Prince Niitabe's mother. After the death of the Emperor Temmu, she became her older paternal half-brother, FUJIWARA no Fuhito's wife, and gave birth to FUJIWARA no Maro.

2 tanka (thirty-one syllables' poem) poems (2-104, 8-1465) were complied into the "Manyoshu" (the oldest anthology of tanka).

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