Mr. Ikebe

…Years of birth and death unknown. The Ikebe clan is a branch of the naturalized, powerful Tokan clan, also known as Mizobe, and the surname was Atai. In the Nihon Shoki, the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Kinmei, it is written that Hida picked up a miraculous camphor tree floating in the sea of ​​Chinu in Izumi County, Kawachi Province, and presented it to the Emperor, who then had a painter carve two statues of the light-shining Buddha at Yoshino-ji Temple out of the tree. The Nihon Ryoiki states that Hida carved three Bodhisattva statues, and in the Nihon Shoki, the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Bidatsu, it is written that Soga no Umako sent Shibatatsuto and Hida to all directions to find ascetics to worship the two Buddha statues that Kafuka no Omi and Saeki no Muraji brought back from Baekje, and found a secular Goguryeo man named Ebin in Harima Province. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Ikebe clan" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…生没年不詳。池辺氏は帰化系の雄族東漢（やまとのあや）氏の一族，溝辺ともみえ，姓（かばね）は直（あたい）。氷田は《日本書紀》欽明14年5月条に河内国泉郡の茅渟（ちぬ）の海に漂う霊妙な楠を取って天皇に献じ，天皇は画師にこの木で吉野寺の放光仏2体を彫造させたとあって，これを《日本霊異記》では氷田に菩薩像3体を造らせたとし，また《日本書紀》敏達13年条には鹿深（かふか）臣と佐伯連が百済から持ち帰った仏像2体をまつるために，蘇我馬子が司馬達等（しばたつと）と氷田を四方に遣わして修行者を求めさせ，播磨国で高句麗人の恵便（えびん）という還俗者を得たとある。…

※「池辺氏」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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