arakahi

Updated: May 25, 2025

For the space of a twelvemonth this rebel remained master of the situation, but, in A.D. 528, the o-muraji, Arakahi, crushed him after a desperate conflict in the province of Chikugo.* Iwai effected his escape to Buzen and died by his own hand in a secluded valley. Although, however, this formidable rebellion was thus successfully quelled, the great expedition did not mature.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era