sinra

Updated: May 19, 2025

And during this reign of Yuryaku, when Lord Otomo was killed in a fatal engagement with the Sinra troops, his henchman, Tsumaro, crying, "My master has fallen; what avails that I alone should remain unhurt?" threw himself into the ranks of the enemy and perished. Loyalty to the death characterized the Japanese in every age.

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

The incident responsible for his ultimate consent was the intervention of a concubine, Onakatsu, afterwards Empress. Then the prince yielded. A year later envoys were sent to seek medical assistance in Korea, which was evidently regarded as the home of the healing science as well as of many other arts borrowed from China. A physician arrived from Sinra, and Inkyo's malady was cured.

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

The sober and unexaggerated narrative of that history would have been accepted, less only the miraculous portents which accompany it. As to the date of the invasion, however, it must have remained obscure: the Kojiki's narrative furnishes one clue. They burnt him, and proceeded to besiege Keumsyong, the Sinra capital, but were ultimately beaten off.

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

During the next sixteen years nothing more is heard of the Sushen, but, in A.D. 676, seven of them arrived in the train of an envoy from Sinra, the eastern of the three kingdoms into which Korea was then divided.

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