Murakuni Oyori - Message from Murakuni

Japanese: 村国男依 - むらくにのおより

Year of death: Tenmu 5.7 (676)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A powerful military commander of Prince Oama (later Emperor Tenmu) during the Jinshin War (672). Oyori is also written as Oyori or Koyori. He was born in Kakami County, Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture). As Prince Oama's chamberlain, he rushed to Anpachi County, Mino Province when the war broke out, and with the help of Tahonji, who served as the Yubokurei, he mobilized 3,000 soldiers and succeeded in blocking the road to the strategically important site of Fuwa (Fuwa County, Gifu Prefecture). The Oama side soon invaded Omi, but Oyori became their commander and defeated the Omi army, taking Otsu Palace. Prince Otomo committed suicide, and the Omi army was annihilated. At the time of his death, he was awarded the extraordinary rank of Soto Komurasaki (equivalent to the later Junior Third Rank) for his achievements in the Jinshin era. In July of the first year of the Taiho era (701), he was allowed to pass on a quarter of his 120 households to his children, and in the second year of the Reiki era (716), his son Shigamaro was given 10 cho of land, which was later approved as being passed on to his second generation.

(Kano Hisashi)

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

Japanese:

没年：天武5.7(676)
生年：生年不詳
壬申の乱(672)の大海人皇子(のちの天武天皇)の有力武将。男依は雄依・小依とも書く。美濃国各務郡(岐阜県)出身。大海人皇子の舎人として,乱勃発とともに美濃国安八郡に急行し,湯沐令を務める多品治の協力のもと,3000人の兵士を動員し,戦略要地不破(岐阜県不破郡)の道を塞ぐことに成功した。大海人方はまもなく近江を攻略するが,男依はその主将となって近江軍を破り,大津宮を陥落させた。大友皇子は自殺してここに近江軍は潰滅した。死没時に壬申年の功をもって破格にも外小紫位(のちの従三位相当)を贈られている。大宝1(701)年7月,功封120戸のうち4分の1を子に伝えることを許され,霊亀2(716)年子の志我麻呂に功田10町が与えられ,後年裁定があってそれも二世に伝えることが認められた。<参考文献>直木孝次郎『壬申の乱』

(狩野久)

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