Muraji

Muraji (連) is old a hereditary title Japanese marking the social status and the political statute of the carrier (a Kabane ). It was reserved for most powerful the clans among the clans of the Tomo No Miyatsuko which were associated with particular tasks. The muraji competed with the omi by their political power during the major part of the Period Yamato and frequently enter in conflict with them on political subjects like the question of the acceptance of the Bouddhisme or the questions of succession to the imperial throne. Traditionally, the clans muraji , to which belonged the Ōtomo (大伴), the Nakatomi (中臣), the Mononobe (物部) and the Inbe (忌部), claimed to go down from the gods of the the Pantheon shintoïste (神別氏族, shinbetsu shizoku ).

Like the Omi , the most powerful muraji placed in front of their title the prefix Ō (大) and were thus called Ōmuraji (大連). The Nihon Shoki mentions several Ōmuraji like Mononobe No Ikofutsu (物部伊莒弗) during the reign of the Empereur Richū; Ōtomo No Muroya (大伴室屋), Ōtomo No Kanamura (大伴金村), Mononobe No Me (物部目), Mononobe No Arakabi (物部麁鹿火), Mononobe No Okoshi (物部尾輿) and Mononobe No Moriya (物部守屋).

When the system of the kabane was reformed in that known as of the eight kabane in 684, some powerful muraji of the time is transfered given the kabane of ason which was in the second place in this new hierarchy, whereas the majority of them are transfered to allot the kabane Sukune which corresponded to the third rank. The title of muraji , as for him, was relegated to the seventh rank.

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