WAKE no Kiyomaro was a high-ranking bureaucrat at the end of the Nara period and the beginning of the Heian period, and his close ties to successive emperors meant that he was involved in the relocation of the capital city to Heian-kyo.
和気清麻呂は奈良時代末期～平安時代初期の高級官僚で、歴代天皇の側近として平安京遷都などに力を発揮した。