Isshi incident

The subordinate who had been killed by “the former king in his youth”, had acted like that he himself had been a great king.

In those days people hadn’t got together in court where king had lived.
Instead, people had headed for gorgeous house of this subordinate located on a hill and looked down the palace in place of the imperial court every single day.

In addition, the subordinate had put his armed forces to make a man who had same blood with him be a next king. And he had pushed a rival commit suicide.
This rival had had the blood line of famous man in today’s Japan, “Prince Shotoku”. (This Prince had been adorned in Japanese banknote issued in 1900s)
As a result, this subordinate had made a royal family descended from “Prince Shotoku” destroy.

Then one day, an incident had occurred on the occasion that the messengers from Korean peninsula had come. The mother of “the former king in his youth” had been a king at that time. In front of his mother, “the former king in his youth” had killed this subordinate with a sword.

With this incident called “Isshi incident” as a start, the family of subordinate had gone to ruin in the end through the family had prospered with even more power than a king. And finally the family had disappeared in a shadow of the history.
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2012/7/26