Tachibana no Hayanari (d. 842), grandson of the Nara-period right minister Tachibana Naramaro, was one of the “Three Brushes” of early Heian calligraphy alongside Kukai and Emperor Saga. Trained in Tang China during the 804 embassy, he served as Emperor Saga’s calligraphy master. Implicated in the 842 Jowa Incident — a Fujiwara political purge — he was stripped of his rank, given the surname “Hinin” (untouchable), and sentenced to exile in Izu. He died en route at Itazuki in Totomi Province (modern Hamamatsu). His daughter Myochu carried his bones back toward Kyoto in mourning robes, a story preserved in classical literature. Posthumously rehabilitated in 850, he is enshrined at Kamigoryo Shrine as one of the goryo deities.