Iki no Hakatoko

In this Japanese name, the surname is Iki.

Iki no Hakatoko (伊吉 博德, seventh century) was a Japanese diplomat, legal scholar and writer.

Mission to China

• 659-661 envoy to China on behalf of Empress Saimei.
• 667-668 he went to China on behalf of Emperor Tenji, travelling with Kasa no Moroishi (笠諸石?) to the court of the Gaozong, Emperor of China. On his return voyage to Japan, he escorted Tang emissary Sima Facong (司馬法聰) to the army stationed at the old Baekje garrison.

References

• Fogel, Joshua A. (2009). Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03259-0 OCLC 255142264
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5 OCLC 48943301

External links

• 日本書紀　卷廿六　齊明紀 (Chinese)