In the prologue, it is stated that the document was written by Prince Shotoku and SOGA no Umako upon the order of Emperor Suiko (similar statement can be found in "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Suiko (620)). 序文には推古天皇の命によって聖徳太子と蘇我馬子が著したもの(『日本書紀』推古天皇28年(620年)に相当する記述がある)とある。 |