Shōmu

701–756

Emperor of Japan

calligrapher

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Shōmu:

• Li Bai (701–762)
• Du Fu (712–770)
• Jabir ibn Hayyan (721–815)
• Abū Ḥanīfa (699–767)
• Charlemagne (742–814)

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