Abe no Nakamaro (阿倍 仲麻呂, c.– c. 770), whose Chinese name was Chao Heng (Chinese: 晁衡, pronounced Chōkō in Japanese), was a Japanese scholar and waka poet of the Nara period. He served on a Japanese envoy to Tang-dynasty China and served as the Tang duhu (protectorate governor) of Annam (modern Vietnam).
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698
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770 (aged 71)
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