Abe no Iratsume
Abe no Iratsume( 阿倍女郎 or 安倍女郎; dates unknown) was a Japanese" waka" poet of the Nara period.
Abe no Munetō
Abe no Munetō was based at the Isawa Stockade.
He occupied the fort called the Tonomi Palisade( 鳥海冊," tonomi- saku") that was established on the north side of the Isawa at an uncertain date.
In 1061, during the Zenkunen War, Abe no Munetō defeated the Minamoto forces in the Battle of Tonomi Palisade.
Abe no Hironiwa
Abe no Hironiwa( 安倍広庭, also written 阿倍広庭) was a Japanese" waka" and" kanshi" poet during the Nara period.
Ernest Gagnon
Ernest Gagnon (7 November 1834 – 15 September 1915) was a Canadian folklorist, composer, and organist.
He is best known for compiling a large amount of French Canadian folk music which he published as "Chansons populaires du Canada" in 1865–1867.
He was greatly admired for his virtuoso performances on the organ and was also considered an expert at plainsong accompaniment.
Abe no Kooji
Abe no Kooji( 安倍子祖父) was a Japanese courtier and" waka" poet of the Nara period.
Fujiwara no Kiyokawa
, also known by the Chinese- style name Heqing( 河清), was a Japanese noble of the Nara period.
He was the fourth son of the" sangi" Fujiwara no Fusasaki, the founder of the Fujiwara Hokke.
He reached the court rank of and the position of" sangi", and was posthumously awarded the rank of.
As an envoy to Tang China, he served the Tang court along with Abe no Nakamaro, but due to storms and the An Lushan Rebellion he was unable to return to his home, and died in China.
Jonas Gagnon
Jonas Gagnon( August 31, 1846 – July 3, 1915) was an American businessman, tugboat captain, and politician.
Born in Dunham, Canada, Gagnon and his parents emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Gagnon worked in the fishing industry and was the captain of the tug boat:" M. E. Gagnon," that Gagnon and his brothers owned.
Then Gagnon and his brothers own Gagnon Brothers a mercantile business in Two Rivers.
Gagnon served on the Two Rivers Common Council, the Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors, and school commissioner on the Two Rivers School Board.
From 1899 to 1903, Gagnon served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Democrat.
Gagnon died at his home in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Abe no Nakamaro
, whose Chinese name was Chao Heng( pronounced" Chōkō" in Japanese), was a Japanese scholar and" waka" poet of the Nara period.
He moved to Tang dynasty China and served as the Tang" jiedushi"( governor) of Annam( modern Vietnam).
Tachibana no Naramaro
He was the leader of a plot to replace Fujiwara no Nakamaro and to overthrow Empress Kōken(" Tachibana no Naramaro's Conspiracy").
It was not successful.
Kamo no Yasunori
Kamo no Yasunori( 賀茂 保憲) was an" onmyōji", a practitioner of" onmyōdō", during the Heian period in Japan.
He was considered the premier onmyōji of his time.
Yasunori was the son of the onmyōji Kamo no Tadayuki( 賀茂 忠行).
According to a tale in the" Konjaku Monogatarishu", at the age of ten, Yasunori accompanied his father to an exorcism, where he was able to perceive the demons — a sign of talent, for, unlike Tadayuki, Yasunori was capable of doing so without formal training.
He later taught Abe no Seimei the art of onmyōdō.
Seimei became his successor in astrology and divination, while Yasunori's son succeeded him in the creation of the calendar, a lesser task.
For several centuries afterward, the Abe clan controlled the government ministry of onmyōdō, while the Kamo clan became hereditary keepers of the calendar.
Yasunori's second daughter became an acclaimed poet.
Yasunori's death is a driving plot element in the kabuki play" Ashiya Dōman Ōuchi KagamiA Courtly Mirror of Ashiya Dōman").
In the play, he is the owner of the" Ki n'u Gyokuto Shū", a book of divination passed down from a Chinese wizard.
He intends to marry his adopted daughter to his disciple Abe no Yasuna( 安倍保名), the father of Abe no Seimei, and to give the book to him, but he dies before doing so.
This sets the stage for a conflict between Ashiya Michitaru( as Dōman is called in the play) and Abe no Yasuna over ownership of the book.

Question: Are both Ernest Gagnon and Abe No Nakamaro from the same country?
Answer: no