As an interpreter, he accompanied ONO no Imoko, a Japanese envoy to Sui Dynasty China in 607 and he also joined ONO no Imoko sent as an envoy to Sui in the following year, but it is said that he never came back to Japan from Sui after that.
607年に派遣された遣隋使では、小野妹子の通事として随行し、翌年の遣隋使でも小野妹子に随行したが、その後日本へは帰国しなかったと伝えられている。