He was an intellectual from the family of immigrants called MINABUCHI no Ayahito who lived in the present Inabuchi, Asukamura, around the upper Asuka-gawa River.
現在の飛鳥川上流の明日香村稲渕に住んだ南淵漢人（みなみぶちのあやひと）と称される渡来系の氏族の知識人。