The from 463 was a revolt against the

Yamato state The was a tribal alliance centered on the Yamato region (Nara Prefecture) from the 4th century to the 7th century, and ruled over the alliance of noble families in the central and western parts of the Japanese archipelago. The age is from the ...

on the

Korean peninsula Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

, involving two brothers from the Kibi clan: Tasa and Oto. The revolt was triggered when Tasa learned that the Japanese

Emperor Yūryaku (418 - 8 September 479) was the 21st legendary Emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 雄略天皇 (21) retrieved 2013-8-28. according to the traditional order of succession. He is remembered as a patron of sericulture.Nippon ...

had moved him to the Japanese post at

Mimana Mimana (), also transliterated as Imna according to the Korean pronunciation, is the name used primarily in the 8th-century Japanese text '' Nihon Shoki'', likely referring to one of the Korean states of the time of the Gaya confederacy (c. 1st– ...

on the Korean Peninsula in order to seize his beautiful wife. The incident falls into Japan's

proto-historic Protohistory is a period between prehistory and history during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted the existence of those pre-literate groups in their own writings. For example, in ...

period and is recounted in the '' Nihon Shoki''.

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When Yūryaku ascended the throne in 456, Japan was on friendly terms with the Korean kingdom of

Paekche Baekje or Paekche (, ) was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla. Baekje was founded by Onjo, the third son of Goguryeo's founder Jumon ...

and—since the reign of

Empress Jingū was a legendary Japanese empress who ruled as a regent following her husband's death in 200 AD. Both the ''Kojiki'' and the ''Nihon Shoki'' (collectively known as the ''Kiki'') record events that took place during Jingū's alleged lifetime. Leg ...

(201–269)—also held a military outpost on the Korean peninsula at

. However relations with the neighboring kingdom of

Silla Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms of K ...

had been strained after the harsh treatment of their convoy in 453.According to the Nihon Shoki, members of the convoy had been imprisoned and questioned being suspected to have had dealing with the female attendants (''uneme'') after referring to Mount Unebe by the (incorrect) name uneme. Angered by this incident, Silla had reduced the number of ships between the countries and articles sent as tribute. Since 456, Silla had not sent the customary presents to the Japanese Emperor. In 463, Tasa, omi of Upper Kibi, was at the Imperial Palace and speaking to his friends, praised his wife, Waka: In order to possess Waka, Emperor Yūryaku had Tasa moved out of the way to the distant post of governor of Mimana and made Waka-hime one of his concubines. When Tasa learned that he had been robbed of his wife, he started a revolt looking for help from Silla. Yūryaku, known for his cruelty, ordered Tasa's son, Oto, to lead an army against his father. Oto was joined by a group of men who wanted to secure skilled artisans from Paekche. Oto had settled for several months in Paekche (without taking any action against Tasa or Silla) when he received a message from his father suggesting he hold Mimana and Paekche and break off communication with Japan: However Oto's wife, Kusu, was a very patriotic woman who foiled Tasa's plot by killing her husband. Over several years, Yūryaku sent four expeditions to Korea, but could not recover his hold on the peninsula. Brinkley asserts that Japan lost its standing in Korea "because of Yūryaku's illicit passion for one of his subjects." After the death of Yūryaku on the 7th day of the 8th month, 479, Prince Hoshikawa, encouraged by his mother, the "robbed" consort Waka-hime, claimed the throne against the designated crown prince, Shiraka, which led to the

Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion The Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion was a power struggle for the Japanese Imperial throne following the death of Emperor Yūryaku in 479. The second son of the Emperor, encouraged by his mother, tried to seize authority by occupying the treasury, but wa ...

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