Ōmi no Mifune

Ōmi no Mifune
Ōmi no Mifune by Kikuchi Yōsai, illustration in the late Edo work Zenken Kojitsu (前賢故実?).
Native name	淡海三船
Born	722
Died	July 17, 785(785-07-17)
Language	Classical Chinese
Ethnicity	Japanese
Period	Nara
Genre	kanshi
Relatives	Emperor Kōbun (paternal great-grandfather), Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi?, paternal grandfather), Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi?, father)

Ōmi no Mifune (淡海三船^?, 722—785) was a Japanese scholar and writer of kanshi (poetry in Classical Chinese) and kanbun (prose in Classical Chinese), who lived in the Nara period of Japanese history.

Mifune was born in 722.

His father was Prince Ikebe (池辺王, Ikebe no Ōkimi^?), who was a son of Prince Kadono (葛野王, Kadono no Ōkimi^?), a son of Emperor Kōbun. He was originally an imperial prince, known as Prince Mifune (御船王 or 三船王, Mifune no Ōkimi^?), but in the first month of 851 was made a commoner and given the surname Ōmi and the title Mahito.