Prince Oshikabe - Prince Oshikabe

...In other words, in 684 (the 13th year of the reign of Tenmu), the Emperor established the eight ranks of surnames, and used the Taoist theological terms "Shinjin" and "Doshi" for the first and fifth ranks, and after his death, the three characters "Okinomahito" (Mahito), which directly express the Taoist belief in immortals, were used as his posthumous name (Shinjin). Furthermore, according to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro's "A Song Dedicated to Prince Oshibe - Poetry of the Form of Immortals" in Volume 9 of the "Man'yoshu," Prince Osakabe is presumed to have had faith in or a strong interest in immortals, and Prince Kadono, the son of another princess, Toichi, wrote a Chinese poem in the "Kaifuso" entitled "Playing at Mount Ryumon," located northeast of Yoshino, in which he sang, "How shall I find peace in finding Wang Qiao's path, and, bearing a crane, enter Hoei" ("Wang Qiao" is the name of an immortal; "Hoei" is the name of the island of immortals).

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Prince Oshikabe" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…すなわち天皇は684年(天武13)に〈八色（やくさ）の姓（かばね）〉を定めて，その第1位と第5位に道教の神学用語である〈真人〉と〈道師〉を用い，死後にはその諡（おくりな）に道教の神仙信仰をそのまま表す〈瀛真人（おきのまひと）〉の3字が用いられている(真人)。またその皇子である忍壁（おさかべ）は《万葉集》巻九に載せる柿本人麻呂の〈忍壁皇子に献る歌――仙人の形を詠む〉によれば，神仙の信仰もしくは強い関心の持ち主であったことが推定され，同じく皇女の十市の男子である葛野（かどの）王は，吉野の北東にある〈竜門山に遊ぶ〉と題する漢詩を《懐風藻》に載せて，〈安（いずく）にか王喬の道を得て　鶴に控（たずな）して蓬瀛（ほうえい）に入らん〉と歌っている(〈王喬〉は神仙の名。〈蓬瀛〉は神仙の島の名)。…

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