Uneme clan Eikihi monument

Japanese: 采女氏塋域碑 - うねめしのえいいきひ

This stone monument was made in 689 (the 3rd year of the reign of Empress Jito) to mark the grave of Uneme Takeyoshi. It was originally excavated from Katabirayama in Kasugamura, Kawachi Province (present-day Taishi-cho, Minamikawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture) and is said to have been placed at the nearby Myoken-ji Temple, but its location has now been lost. According to a rubbing from the Edo period, the stone was about 38 cm high and 21 cm wide, and six lines of text were engraved on its entire surface. The text states that Uneme Takeyoshi, who was a high official at the Asuka Kiyomihara Daichotei (the Imperial Court Garden of Asuka) and held the rank of Chodai-ni, had requested the land on Kataurayama for 4,000 generations as the gravesite, and that it should not be destroyed or defaced by others. The date December 25, 689, is added at the end.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

689年(持統3)，采女竹良（うねめのちくら）の墓所を明示するために作られた石碑。もと河内国春日村(現，大阪府南河内郡太子町)の帷子（かたびら）山から出土し，付近の妙見寺に置かれていたと伝えるが，現在その所在を逸している。江戸時代の拓本によると，石は高さ38cm，幅21cmほどの大きさで，その一面に6行にわたって文が陰刻されていた。文面には〈飛鳥浄御原大朝庭〉(天武朝)の大弁官で直大弐の位を有した采女竹良卿の墓所として，形浦山の地4000代（しろ）を請いうけたので，他人がこれを破壊したりけがしてはならない旨が述べられており，末尾に己丑年(689)12月25日の日付が加えられている。

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