Ikebe no Hita

Japanese: 池辺氷田 - いけべのひた

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. He is famous as a Buddhist believer in the early period (6th century). The Ikebe Nao clan was one of the many clans that split off from the Tokan clan, a naturalized Chinese descendant of Chinese. According to the entry for the 13th year of Bidatsu (584) in the Nihon Shoki, when Soga no Umako acquired two Buddhist statues, he ordered Shiba Tatsuto and himself to search for practitioners, and found a former monk called Ebin. He then used Ebin as his teacher to make three nuns, including Zenshin-ni, into nuns. They are said to be the first nuns in Japan to enter the priesthood. Also, in the 5th chapter of the first volume of the Nihon Ryōiki, during the reign of Emperor Bidatsu, when it was decided to make a Buddhist statue out of camphor wood obtained from the sea, he carved three Buddhist statues. These are said to be the Amida statues at Hisoji Temple in Yoshino. The Nihon Shoki includes this story in the entry for the 14th year of Kinmei.

(Kazuhiko Yoshida)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
最初期(6世紀)の仏教信者として著名。池辺直氏は中国系帰化人の東漢氏が多数の氏に分かれたなかのひとつ。『日本書紀』敏達13(584)年条によれば,蘇我馬子は仏像2体を入手すると,司馬達等と彼のふたりに命じて修行者を求めさせ,還俗僧(もと僧であった者)の恵便を見つけだした。そして恵便を師として善信尼ら3人の尼を出家させた。わが国最初の出家だという。また『日本霊異記』上巻第5話では,敏達天皇の代,海中から入手した楠で仏像を造ることになった際,彼が仏像3体を刻んだという。これが吉野の比蘇寺の阿弥陀像だという。『日本書紀』ではこの話を欽明14年条にかけている。

(吉田一彦)

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