Soga no Iname

Japanese: 蘇我稲目 - そがのいなめ

Year of death: 31.3.1 (570.3.22)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. Minister in the reign of Emperor Senka and Emperor Kinmei. Also written as Iname or Inamae. Grandson of Kanshi. Son of Koryo. Father of Umako, Katashiohime, Oane no Kimi, and Ishisuna. Grandfather to Emperor Yomei, Sushun, and Suiko. Appointed as a Minister in 536, and reappointed as a Minister when Emperor Kinmei ascended to the throne. He married his daughters Katashiohime and Oane no Kimi to the Emperor, and they each bore seven sons and six daughters, including Emperor Suiko and Emperor Yomei, and four sons and one daughter, including Emperor Sushun and Prince Anahobe, successfully raising the royal family of the Soga clan. In the 7th year of the Kinmei era, Bogo (Bogo is 538, which corresponds to the 3rd year of Propaganda in the Nihon Shoki), when King Seongmyeong of Baekje presented him with a Buddha statue and sutras, he placed the statue in the Okinada family home and showed his willingness to accept it by turning the Mukaihara family home into a temple. This led to conflict with the Mononobe and Nakatomi clans, who tried to eliminate Buddhism, and on the pretext of an epidemic, the Buddha statues were dumped in Horie in Naniwa and the temple was burned. On the other hand, he also used immigrants to organize the family registers of Shiroino Tonokura in Kibi (Ochiai Town, Okayama Prefecture) and Kojima Tonokura (Okayama City), and worked to strengthen the Yamato government's control over the whole country. It is said that in the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Kinmei, Otomo no Satehiko, who returned from the peninsula, married two women who had been presented to him, and had them serve at Karugakuden (Sakurai City). The Gangoji Engi states that he died in the year of the Ox (the 30th year of the reign of Emperor Kinmei, 569).

(Atsushi Nito)

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

Japanese:

没年：欽明31.3.1(570.3.22)
生年：生年不詳
宣化・欽明朝の大臣。伊奈米,伊那米とも書く。韓子の孫。高麗の子。馬子,堅塩媛,小姉君,石寸名の父。用明・崇峻・推古天皇の外祖父。宣化1(536)年,大臣に任命され,欽明天皇の即位時にも大臣に再任される。娘の堅塩媛と小姉君を天皇の妃とするが,それぞれが推古,用明天皇などの7男6女,崇峻天皇,穴穂部皇子など4男1女をもうけて蘇我系王族の育成に成功する。欽明7年戊午(戊午は538年,日本書紀では宣伝3年に当たる),百済の聖明王から仏像,経論が献上されると,仏像を小墾田家に安置し,向原家を寺として積極的な受容の意志を示した。そのため仏教を排除しようとする物部氏や中臣氏と対立,疫病の流行を口実に仏像は難波の堀江へ捨てられ,寺も焼かれた。一方,渡来人を利用して,吉備の白猪屯倉(岡山県落合町)や児島屯倉(岡山市)の戸籍を整備するなど,大和政権の全国支配の強化にも努めた。欽明23年,半島から帰国した大伴狭手彦が献上したふたりの女性を妻とし軽曲殿(桜井市)に侍らせたとある。なお,『元興寺縁起』は没年を己丑年(欽明30年,569)とする。

(仁藤敦史)

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