Yakushi Enichi - Kusushi no Enichi

Japanese: 薬師恵日 - くすしのえにち

Year of birth: Unknown
A person who came to China in the first half of the 7th century. Also written as Iebi. A pharmacist and the fifth-generation descendant of Saiki Tokurai, who came to China from Baekje during the reign of Yuryaku. A scholar in the Great Tang Dynasty. A deputy envoy to the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Empress Suiko (593-628), he was sent to China to study medicine, and is said to have taken the name Yakushi after returning home, which he adopted as his surname. In the 31st year of the Suiko era (623), he returned to China with an envoy from Silla, and suggested that those studying in China should return home early, and that Great Tang was a rare country with legal rules and regulations, so people should visit it regularly. He went to China again in the 2nd year of Jomei (630) and the 5th year of Hakuchi (654). His rank when he went to China in the 2nd year of Jomei was Dainichi (equivalent to Shogoi), but when he returned to China in the 1st year of Saimei (655), he was Oyamashita (equivalent to Jurokui), and it is thought that he may have been demoted for some reason.

(Atsushi Nito)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
7世紀前半の渡来人。医恵日とも書く。百済から雄略朝に渡来した才伎徳来の五世孫で薬師。大唐学問生。遣唐副使。推古朝(593～628)に,唐に遣わされ医術を学び,帰国後薬師と号し,これを姓としたとある。推古31(623)年,新羅使と共に帰国,唐に留学している者の早期帰国および大唐国は法式備わり定まれる珍しい国であるので,常に通うべきだと建言した。以後も舒明2(630)年と白雉5(654)年に遣唐使として渡唐。なお舒明2年,唐に渡ったときの冠位は大仁(正五位相当)であるが,斉明1(655)年に帰国したときは大山下(従六位相当)で,何かの理由で降格されたとも考えられる。

(仁藤敦史)

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