Prince Oshisakahikohito - Prince Oshisakahikohito

Japanese: 押坂彦人大兄皇子 - おしさかのひこひとのおおえのみこ

Year of birth: Unknown
A powerful member of the royal family in the latter half of the 6th century. Son of Emperor Bidatsu. Father of Prince Tamura (later Emperor Jomei). As he was the grandfather of both Emperor Tenchi and Emperor Tenmu, he was later called "the great elder of the imperial ancestors." He lived in Suiha Palace, which is thought to have been located in Kido-go, Hirose County, Yamato Province (Koryo-cho, Nara Prefecture). His mother, Hirohime (daughter of Prince Okinaga-no-Matate), lived in Oshisaka Palace (Sakurai City), which was run by her family, the Okinaga clan, and the prince also spent his childhood there, so it seems likely that he inherited the Oshisakabe (Oshobe), a subordinate group that served the palace. In 587, when the emperor fell ill and the selection of the next emperor began, the prince, along with his half-brother Prince Takeda, was seen as a strong candidate for the throne. His movements during the war to pursue Mononobe no Moriya after Yomei's death are unknown, and there is a theory that he was assassinated by order of Soga no Umako in the midst of this chaos. The Engishiki states that the tomb is the tomb of Nariage in Hirose County, but the prevailing theory is that it is the tomb of Makino Tomb (Koryo-cho, Nara Prefecture), a large circular tomb with a diameter of about 60 meters and a horizontal stone chamber with a total length of 17 meters, located in the Umami Tomb Group.

(Mitsuo Toyama)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
6世紀後半ごろの有力王族。敏達天皇の子。田村皇子(のちの舒明天皇)の父。天智,天武両天皇の祖父に当たるので,のちに「皇祖大兄」と呼ばれた。大和国広瀬郡城戸郷(奈良県広陵町)にあったと思われる水派宮に住んだ。母広姫(息長真手王の娘)が,実家の息長氏の経営する忍坂宮(桜井市)に住み,皇子も幼少年期をここでおくった関係から,同宮に奉仕する服属集団,忍坂部(刑部)を相続したらしい。用明2(587)年,天皇が病に倒れ,次期大王の選定が始まると,皇子は異母兄弟の竹田皇子と共に,有力な王位継承候補として注目された。用明死後の物部守屋追討戦争ではその動静が不明であり,この混乱の渦中,蘇我馬子の指令で暗殺されたとする説もある。『延喜式』は,その墓を広瀬郡の成相墓としているが,馬見古墳群中,全長17mの横穴式石室を持つ,径約60mの大形円墳,牧野古墳(奈良県広陵町)に比定する説が有力である。<参考文献>薗田香融『日本古代財政史の研究』

(遠山美都男)

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