In 512, the king of the Korean kingdom of
Baekje (called
Kudara by the Japanese) requested to take control of four districts of the land of the
Gaya confederacy (known to the Japanese as
Mimana). Arakabi was ordered by
Emperor Keitai to report the emperor's consent, but at the advice of his wife feigned illness and claimed to be unable to make the journey. The legendary Japanese warrior queen
Empress Jingū was said to have conquered these lands for the
Yamato state some centuries earlier (around the years 200–300 CE), and Arakabi and his wife took this as a sign that the
kami wished for these lands to be in Japanese hands. As minister, Arakabi led expeditions to fight off outside peoples, and also to repress the revolts of various rebellious elements within the Yamato state, such as Iwai, the governor of Tsukushi,
whose revolt was repressed in 527. == See also ==