The soldiers of the Mononobe Clan, which comes from a line of a military clan, were ferocious and they tenaciously resisted the attack by building an inagi (a defensive post made out of rice straw); Moriya let loose a rain of arrows by climbing on the branch of Magnolia.
軍事氏族の物部氏の兵は精強で稲城を築き頑強に抵抗し、守屋は朴の枝に登って雨のように矢を射かけた。