Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari went to study with a scholar who had spent more than thirty years on the continent after travelling with an embassy to Sui China. His school is said to have stood on a sloping road in Inabuchi.
From the accession of his father, Emperor Keitai, to the reigns of the children who took the throne one after another: tracing the emperor who stands at the threshold of the Asuka period.