Oofubenoo - Oofubenoo

Japanese: 大生部多 - おおふべのおお

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown An ancient religious figure with magical powers. According to the Nihon Shoki, in the seventh month of autumn in the third year of the reign of Empress Kogyoku (644), he preached that worshiping the deity of Tokoyo would bestow wealth and longevity, make the poor wealthy, and rejuvenate the elderly, starting the first religious movement of ancient times, said to have originated from Taoist magic, near the Fuji River in Suruga Province (Shizuoka Prefecture). Tokoyo no Kami is a green insect with black spots that resembles a silkworm and is born on tangerine and Japanese pepper trees. The people threw their belongings and livestock onto the streets, drank alcohol, sang and danced wildly, abandoned work, became vagrants, and even stormed the capital, but the movement to worship Tokoyo no Kami came to an end when Oibeta was captured and beaten by Hata no Kawakatsu, a powerful lord and Buddhist believer.

(Kunimitsu Kawamura)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
古代の呪術的宗教家。『日本書紀』によると皇極天皇3(644)年秋7月,駿河国(静岡県)富士川の辺で,常世の神を祭ると富と長寿が授けられ,貧しい者は裕福になり,老いた者は若返ると説き,道教的な呪術に由来するといわれる古代最初の宗教運動を起こした。常世の神とは,橘や山椒の木に生まれ,黒い斑点のある,蚕に似た緑の虫である。民衆は家財や家畜などを路上に投げ出して,酒を飲み,歌い踊り狂い,労働を放棄し,浮浪人となって,都にまで押しかける勢いにまで発展したが,豪族で仏教信奉者の秦河勝に大生部多が捕らえられ打ち懲らしめられて,常世の神信仰運動は終息した。

(川村邦光)

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