Soga no Mŭmako no Sukune inquired of the Pèkché priests the method of receiving discipline, and handing over to the Eun-sol, Syu-sin, and the other Pèkché Envoys the nuns Zen-shin and her companions, despatched them (to Corea) for study. Having pulled down the house of Konoha, ancestor of the Asuka no Kinunuhi no Miyakko, he began to build the Temple of Hōkōji. The name of this place was Asuka no (XXI. 14.) Magami no Hara. It was also called Asuka no Tomada.
This year was the year Tsuchinoye Saru (45th) of the Cycle.
A.D. 589. 2nd year, Autumn, 7th month, 1st day. Kamafu, Afumi no Omi, was sent to the Tōsandō[1] to inspect the frontier of the territory of the Yemishi, Kari, Shishibito no Omi, to the Tōkaidō[2] to inspect the frontier of the provinces bordering on the Eastern ocean, and Abe no Omi to the Hokurikudō to inspect the frontier of the province of Koshi, etc.[3]
A.D. 590. 3rd year, Spring, 3rd month. The student nuns, Zen-shin and her companions, returned from Pèkché, and took up their abode in the Temple at Sakurawi.
Autumn, 10th month. People went to the hills to get timber for building Buddhist temples. In this year there entered religion as nuns, Zentoku, daughter of Ohotomo no Sadehiko no Muraji, and his Koma wives Shiraki hime and Kudara hime,[4] under the names of Zem-myō and Myō-kwō. Moreover men of Han[5] named Zen-sō, Zen-tsū, Hō Jō-shō, Zen Chi-sō, Zen Chi-kei, and Zen-kwō, with Tasuna, a son of Kuratsukuri be no Shiba Tattō, at the same time renounced the world, the latter taking the name of Tokusai Hōshi.[6]
A.D. 591. 4th year, Spring, 4th month, 12th day. The Emperor Wosada was buried in the Misasagi of Shinaga.[7] This is the Misasagi where the Empress-consort, his mother, was buried.
- ↑ i.e. East-mountain-circuit, including the inland provinces eastwards from Afumi (Ōmi). The Interlinear Kana has Adzuma, which is not quite the same.
- ↑ East-sea-circuit, including the provinces along the East Coast from Iga to Hitachi.
- ↑ Viz. Etchiu, Echizen, and Echigo.
- ↑ i.e. the Silla lady and the Pèkché lady.
- ↑ China. No doubt we should understand the Ayabito family of Chinese descent. The names are Chinese, but as the persons who bore them had probably never been in China, I have not given the Chinese pronunciation.
- ↑ Hōshi is a priestly title.
- ↑ In Kahachi.
