Born into the branch of the Soga clan that kept its storehouses, he joined the side that killed Iruka, and four years later died suspected of treason. His daughters became the mothers of Empress Jitō and Empress Genmei.
The Nihon Shoki says Soga no Emishi and Soga no Iruka had their mansions here. Yet excavation has found nothing conclusive. And Amakashi-niimasu Shrine stands a little away from the hill.
In 600 the first envoys sent to the Sui court in China came home having been told by the emperor that their ways made no sense. Within a hundred years, this country had become a state governed by ritsuryō law codes.
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.