Abo-shinnō

was a Japanese imperial prince of the early Heian period. Biography He was born in 792 in Kyoto. His parents were Emperor Heizei and . Following the of 810, in which he was complicit, he was exiled to Dazaifu in modern Fukuoka Prefecture, where he was made . In 824, at the beginning of the Tenchō era, he received a pardon and was allowed return to the Capital. In 826, his sons Yukihira, Narihira-both prominent poets- and were given the surname Ariwara. Among his other children was the scholar and poet .