Gwisil Jipsa

Gwisil Jipsa (鬼室集斯; Japanese: Kishitsu Shushi) also pronounced Kwisil Chip-sa. He was the son of Gwisil Boksin (鬼室福信; Japanese: Kishitsu Fukushin) a general of Paekche. When Paekche fell in 660 his father tried to save the nation by raising an army and proclaiming Buyeo Pung (扶餘豊 or 부여풍; Japanese: Fuyu Hosho), the son of the 31st King Uijia, as the next king. In 663, Silla and Tang counterattacked, and besieged the restoration movement at a fortress known as Juryu Castle (주류성/周留城). Boksin was killed.

Gwisil Jipsa would migrate to Japan in the eighth year of Emperor Tenji (676). In Japan they would call him Kishitsu Shushi and would be the ancestor of some Japanese clans such as the Kikuchi of Higo in Kyushu. In February, 665 Naka no Ohye no Miko grants Kwisil Chipsa Lower Shokin. (鬼室集斯に小錦下を授ける。) [ [http://www.himemiko.info/2006/01/ HIMEMIKO*WEB: 2006年01月 アーカイブ ] ]

" [in A.D. 663] . . . . The Minister Yeo Cha-sin, the Minister Kwisil Chip-sa, and others, men and women, to the number of over 700persons, were removed and settled in the district of Kamafu in the province of Afumi [in A.D. 669] . Nihongi (NII: 295) further records that the rank of Upper Daikin was conferred on the Paekche Minister Yeo Cha-sin and on Sataek So-myeong (second official of the Department of Ceremonies that was in charge of personnel administration); the rank of Lower on Kwisil Chipsa (Chief of the Department of Education ); and the rank of Lower Daisen on the Talsol Kong-na Chin-su (who had a military training ), . . . on Kim-su (acquainted with medicine ), . . . on Heo Sol-mo (who thoroughly understood the five classics), and on Kak Pyeong-mu (skilled in the Yin and Yang). The rank Lower was conferred on the other Talsol, more than fifty persons in all [in A.D. 671] .” [Hong, Wontack. (1994). "Paekche of Korea and the Origin of Yamato Japan". Seoul: Kudara International.]

Jipsa would be buried in the town of Hino, Shiga in Ono at the Kishitsu Shrine which is dedicated in his honor. Because of his father's burial in South Korea the town of Hino is sister cities with the place where his father Boksin is buried.

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References

* Hong, Wontack. (1994). "Paekche of Korea and the Origin of Yamato Japan". Seoul: Kudara International.
* http://gias.snu.ac.kr/wthong/
* http://www.himemiko.info/2006/01/
* http://www.kansai.gr.jp/culture_e/ibunka/monuments/siga/index.html

ee also

*History of Korea
*List of Korea-related topics
*Three Kingdoms of Korea