Bifuku/Origin

Bifuku could be based of the fabled Queen Himiko (卑弥呼, ca. 170-248 CE)  the shaman queen of Yamataikoku in Ancient Japan. Based on Chinese dynastic histories say that she had good relations with the people of the Cao Wei Kingdom (220-265)  in China, and she came to power during the Yayoi Period due to the peoples tiring of the constant war between kings. Early Japanese histories do not even mention her though, but she is often associated with Empress Jingu(ca. 200 -269). Scholarly debatover the identity of Himiko, and the location of her legendary domain Yamatai have been in desput since the Edo period, many suspecting she ruled over the Yamato providence in present day Kinki. "The Yamatai controversy" writes Keiji Imamura (1996:188) is the "greatest debate over the history of Japan.