Background
No-Oyu Kasuga was born in 700.
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No-Oyu Kasuga was born in 700.
Records show that he was once a priest under the name Benkei who returned to secular life and allowed to call himself Kurabito-no-Oyu Kasuga. Eight waka poems of his are included in Manyōshū and one in Kaifūsō.