Marise Sakaibe - Marise Sakaibe

Japanese: 境部摩理勢 - さかいべのまりせ

Year of death: 36th year of the reign of Empress Suiko (628)
Year of birth: Unknown
A powerful Soga clan leader in the first half of the 7th century. Father of Kezu and Aya. Uncle of Soga no Emishi. Possibly the son of Iname and the younger brother of Umako. Also written as Soga no Sakaibe no Omi. In the 8th year of the reign of Empress Suiko (600), he was appointed as the shogun dispatched to Mimana. In the 20th year of the same year, when Empress Suiko's birth mother, Soga no Katashiohime (Iname's daughter), was reburied in the tomb of Emperor Kinmei, Umako led many sub-tribes and represented the clan, while Marise is said to have eulogized the "original clan name" and was second in rank to Umako within the Soga clan. In the 36th year of the same year, when the emperor died without appointing a successor, Soga no Emishi gathered his ministers to discuss matters, but Marise supported Prince Yamashiro no Oe (son of Prince Shotoku) and was at odds with Emishi, who supported Prince Tamura (later Emperor Jomei). Even when the family constructed the tomb of Umako, he destroyed the hut at the tomb and retreated alone to live in the palace of King Totsuka (King Totsuka Naka) in Ikaruga, but when he returned home after the king's sudden death, he was annihilated by the Emishi army. Since the position of minister bestowed by the king was linked to the succession of the clan leader's position, such actions can be seen as a struggle for clan leadership within the Soga clan, between the enlightened main family, which sought direct lineal succession, and Marise, which sought the traditional intra-generational succession.

(Atsushi Nito)

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Japanese:

没年：推古36(628)
生年：生年不詳
7世紀前半の蘇我系有力豪族。毛津,阿椰の父。蘇我蝦夷の叔父。稲目の子で馬子の弟か。蘇我境部臣とも書く。推古8(600)年,任那派遣の大将軍に任命された。同20年,推古天皇の生母蘇我堅塩媛(稲目の娘)を欽明天皇陵に改葬する際,馬子が多くの支族を率いて一族を代表したのに対して,摩理勢は「氏姓の本」を誄したといい,蘇我一族では馬子に次ぐ地位にあった。同36年,天皇が後継者を定めずに没すると,蘇我蝦夷は群臣を集めて協議したが,摩理勢は山背大兄王(聖徳太子の子)を推し,田村皇子(のちの舒明天皇)を推す蝦夷と対立した。一族が馬子の墓を造営する際にも,墓所の廬を壊してひとり引き上げ,斑鳩の泊瀬王(泊瀬仲王)の王宮に居住したが,王の急死により家に帰ったところを蝦夷の軍勢に滅ぼされた。こうした行動は大王から与えられる大臣の職位が族長位の継承に連動していることから,直系継承をめざす開明的な本宗家と旧来の世代内継承をめざす摩理勢という,蘇我氏内部の族長権争いと考えることもできる。

(仁藤敦史)

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