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The roles which the five uji mentioned above acted in subsequent history deserve to be studied, and will therefore be briefly set down here. This uji had for founder Koze no Ogara. Thereafter, the heads of the uji occupied prominent positions under successive sovereigns. Soga no Ishikawa founded this uji. Iname's son, Umako, and the latter's son, Yemishi, will be much heard of hereafter.
Two years later, Shiragi also sent a Buddhist eidolon, and in 584 just sixty-two years after the coming of Shiba Tachito from Liang and thirty-two years after Soga no Iname's attempt to popularize the Indian faith two Japanese high officials returned from Korea, carrying with them a bronze image of Buddha and a stone image of Miroku.* These two images were handed over, at his request, to the o-omi, Umako, who had inherited his father's ideas about Buddhism.
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