Mononobe no Arakahi

Japanese: 物部麁鹿火 - もののべのあらかひ

Year of death: 1.7.536
Year of birth: Unknown
A politician and military commander from the end of the 5th century to the beginning of the 6th century. His name can also be written as Araka. According to the Tenson Honki, which is quoted in the Sendai Kuji Hongi, he was the 14th generation descendant of Nigihayahi no Mikoto and the son of Masara no Daimyo. He was already seen as Daimyo during the reign of Buretsu, and after his death, he decided to support King Otomo no Daiseki (later Emperor Keitai) with Otomo no Kanamura and Kose no Otomo no Otomo. In the 6th year of the reign of Emperor Keitai (512), when the so-called four Mimana prefectures were ceded to Baekje, Okokahi was appointed as an imperial emissary and was about to issue an imperial edict to Baekje guests at Naniwa-no-yakata (Osaka City), but he resigned, claiming to be ill, after his wife's admonition. In the 22nd year of the reign of Emperor Keitai, he is said to have personally traveled to Kyushu as the generalissimo to suppress the rebellion of Tsukushi no kuni no miyatsuko Iwai and killed Iwai. He also became Daimyo during both the Ankan and Senka reigns.

(Sato Nagato)

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

Japanese:

没年：宣化1.7(536)
生年：生年不詳
5世紀末から6世紀初にかけての政治家,武将。名は荒甲とも書く。『先代旧事本紀』に引用される『天孫本紀』によれば,饒速日命14世孫で麻佐良大連の子という。武烈朝にすでに大連とみえ,その死後男大迹王(のちの継体天皇)擁立を大伴金村,巨勢男人らと決定した。継体6(512)年にいわゆる任那4県を百済に割譲する際,麁鹿火は宣勅使に任じられて難波館(大阪市)の百済客に宣勅しようとしたが,妻の諫言によって病と称して辞任したという。また継体22年には筑紫国造磐井の乱を鎮圧するために,大将軍として自ら九州に行き磐井を斬ったとされる。安閑・宣化両朝でも大連となる。

(佐藤長門)

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