sentences:  Kada no Azumamaro
  
  Azumamaro was born, the second son of Hakura Nobuaki (1625-1696), into a scholarly family that for generations had supplied Shinto priests to the Inari shrine in Fushimi.From an early age he studied traditional Japanese poetry, waka, and Shinto thought and belief, and his precocity was such that he was soon employed, in 1697, as poetry tutor to one of the sons of Emperor Reigen (regnabat 1663–1687).