Japan 3

• •   Heraclean figure, he was Crown Prince, but was sent away on dangerous mission after he savagely slew his older brother Ōusu no Mikoto. On his travels he defeated the Kumaso brothers and the villain of Izumo in the West. He was then sent to the east where the Rulers of Sagamu tried to kill him by setting a moor alight, but he slew them with the Imperial Sword, Kusanagi. He continued east all the way to Mount Fuji, slaying barbarians and demons on his way. He married (first) Ihatsukuhime no Mikoto, also called Futaji no Iribime no Mikoto, daughter of Emperor Suinen (see above). He married (second) Hozumi no Ototachibanahime no Mikoto, who was drowned as a sacrifice so that her husband might cross the sea on his journey east, daughter of Hozumi no Oshiyama no Sukune. He married (third) Futajihime, daughter of Ōtamuwake, ancestor of the Miyatsuko of Yasu Province in Chikatsuafumi. He married (fourth) Ōkibitakehime younger sister of Kibi no Takehiko, Omi of Kibi. He married (fifth) Yamashiro no Kukumamoribime. He married (sixth) Ohari no Miyazuhime, on his return from the east. He attempted to slay the god of Mount Ibuki, a giant white boar, barehanded but was defeated. As he travelled home, he was filled with regret for the murder of his brother and a great longing for his homeland, which he never saw again; for he died and  turned into a giant white bird which ascended to Heaven. His empty tomb was Shiratori no Misasaki at Kafuchi. He had issue:a) Ineyoriwake no Miko (son of Futajihime or Ihatsukuhime), ancestor of the Lords of Inukami and Takebe.

    • b) Chūai Tarashinakatsuhiko no Mikoto, Fourteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Ihatsukuhime) - see below.

    • c) Wakatake no Miko (son of Futajihime Ihatsukuhime or Ototachibana). He married his grand-niece Ihinumagurohime no Mikoto (see below) and had issue, including:

      • i) Sumeiro Ōnakatsuhiko no Miko. He married Shibanuhime, daughter of Afumi no Shibanuiriki and had issue, including:

        • (1) Kugurohime. She, according to the Kojiki, married her great great grandfather Keikō, Twelfth Emperor of Japan.

    • d) Takekahiko no Miko, also called Takemiko no Miko (son of Ōkibitakehime), ancestor of the Lords of Aya in Sanugi, Wake in Iyo, and Miyaji, the Wake of Too, and Obito of Masa.

    • e) Tookiwake no Miko (son of Ōkibitakehime), ancestor of the Lord of Wake in Iyo.

  • e) Ashikami no Gamimiwake no Miko (son of Kukumamoribime), ancestor of the Wakes of Kamakura, Ihashiro and Fukita and the Lords of Ozu. He destroyed four white birds, sent to Emperor Chuai as tribute and was therefore executed.

  • f) Okinagamiwake no Miko. He had issue:

    • i) Kuhimata Nagahiko no Miko. He had issue:

      • (1) Ihinumagurohime no Mikoto. She married her great-uncle Wakatake no Miko and had issue - see above.

      • (2) Okinagamawaka Ōnakatsuhime no Mikoto. She married Ōjin, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

        • (3) Otohime Mawakehime, also called Momoshikiirobe. She married Wakanukefutamata no Mikoto, son of Ōjin, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

    • a) Nu no Oshiirihime no Mikoto (daughter of Futajihime).

  • 4) Yamatoneko no Mikoto (son of Ōiratsume)

  • 5) Kamukushi no Miko (son of Ōiratsume), ancestor of the Sakabe Abiko Clan of Kibi and the Sakabe Clan of Uda.

  • 6) Seimu Wakararashihiko no Mikoto, Thirteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Yasaka) - see below.

  • 7) Ihoki no Iribiko no Mikoto (son of Yasaka). He was Crown Prince, but never acceeded to the throne. He married Shiritsukitome, daughter of the Takeinada no Sukune, ancestor of the Muraji of Ohari. He had issue:

  • a) Homuda no mawaka no Miko. He had issue:

    • i) Takagi no Iribime no Mikoto. She married Ōjin, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

    • ii) Nakatsuhime no Mikoto. She married Ōjin, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

    • iii) Otohime no Mikoto. She married Ōjin, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

  • 8) Oshi no wake no Mikoto (son of Yasaka)

  • 9) Wakayamatoneko no Mikoto (son of Yasaka).

  • 10) Ōsuwake no Mikoto (son of Yasaka).

  • 11) Isaki no Iribiko no Mikoto (son of Yasaka).

  • 12) Toyotowake no Miko (son of concubine one)

  • 13) Wakaki no Iribiko no Miko (son of concubine two)

  • 14) Kibi no Ehiko no Mikoto (son of concubine two or Yasaka)

  • 15) Kamikushi no Mikoto (son of Ikawahime), ancestor of the Miyatsuko of Sanuki Province.

  • 16) Inase no Iribiko no Mikoto (son of Ikawahime), ancestor of Wake of Harima.

  • 17) Takekuni Koriwake no Mikoto (son of Takadahime), ancestor of the Wake of Mimura in Iyo.

  • 18) Hiuga no Sotsuhiko no Mikoto (son of Otanehime), ancestor of the Lord of Amu.

  • 19) Kunijiwake no Mikoto (son of Sotakebime), ancestor of the Wake of Minuma.

  • 20) Kunisewake no Mikoto, also called Miyajiwake no Mikoto (son of Sotakebime).

  • 21) Toyotowake no Mikoto, (son of Sotakebime), ancestor of the Wake of Hi Province.

  • 22) Toyokuniwake no Miko (son of Mihakashibime), ancestor of the Miyatsuko of Himuka Province.

  • 23) Mawaka no Miko (son of Wakiiratsume)

  • 24) Hikohito no Ōe no Miko (son of Wakiiratsume or Kagurohime). He married his half-sister Shirokane no Miko (see below) and had issue, including:

    • a) Ōnagata no Miko

  • a) Ōnakatsuhime no Mikoto. She married Chūai, Fourteenth Emperor of Japanand had issue - see below.

  • 1) Ihoki no Iribime no Mikoto (daughter of Yasaka)

  • 2) Nunoshiro no Iratsume (daughter of concubine one or Yasaka)

  • 3) Nunaki no Iratsume (daughter of concubine two)  

  • 4) Kagoyorihime no Mikoto (daughter of concubine two or Yasaka)

  • 5) Takaki no Iribime no Mikoto (daughter of concubine two or Yasaka)

  • 6) Otohime no Mikoto (daughter of concubine two or Yasaka)

  • 7) Ionohime no Mikoto (daughter of Mizuwa)

  • 8) Shirokane no Miko. She married her half-brother Ōe no Miko and had issue - see above.

Seimu Wakararashihiko no Mikoto, Thirteenth Emperor of Japan and Great King of Yamato. He ruled from the Palace of Takaanaho at Shiga. He made his distant and apparently centuries-old relative Takeuchi no Sukune his Prime Minister, and established provinces and governors. He married Ototakara no Iratsume, daughter of Takeoshiyamatarine, ancestor of the Omi of Hozumi. He died at the age of 95 (Kojiki) or 107 (Nihonshoki) years and was buried at Tatanami in Saki. He had issue:

• 1) Watanuke no Miko

Chūai Tarashinakatsuhiko no Mikoto, Fourteenth Emperor of Japan and Great King of Yamato. He ruled from the Palace of Toyora at Anado and in Kashishi in Tsukushi, both of which are in the southwestern island of Kyushu, far from Yamato; Basil Chamberlain suggests therefore that he is an interpolation from a seperate Kyushu cycle of legends.

He married his cousin, Ōnakatsuhime, daughter of Hikohito no Ōe no Miko, son of Emperor Keiko (see above).

He married (second) Jingō Kōgō Okinagatarashihime no Mikoto, Empress, a descendant of Emperor Kaika (see above); she ruled the Empire as regent for her unborn son after her husband's death.

Jingō was possessed by the sun-goddess Amaterasu, who revealed the existance of lands beyond the Western Sea (Korea), and called upon the Emperor to conquer them, but he did not believe such lands existed. For this impiety, the gods killed him at the age of 52 and he was buried at Nagae or Nagano, near Ega in Kafuchi. He had issue:

• 1) Kagosaka no Miko (son of Ōnakatsuhime). He was killed by a boar in the moor of Toga while searching for an omen concerning, untrue, rumours of the demise of the infant Emperor Ojin.

• 2) Oshikuma no Miko (son of Ōnakatsuhime). He was told that the infant Emperor Ojin had died and therefore claimed the Empire for himself, but was defeated in battle by Jingo and committed suicide by leaping into the sea.

  • 3) Homuyawake no Mikoto (son of Jingō).

  • 4) Ōjin Ōtomowake no Mikoto, also called Homudawake no Mikoto, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Jingō) - see below.

  • 5) A Son, who had issue, including:

  • a) A Son, who had issue, including:

    • i) A Son, who had issue, including:

      • (1) A Son, who had issue, including:

        • (a) Yamatohiko no Miko. He was offered the throne as Twenty Sixth Emperor after the deat of Buretsu, but he fled.

Jingō Kōgō Okinagatarashihime no Mikoto, Regent of Japan. She ruled from the death of her husband until the birth of his son, with whom she was pregnant; a period which lasted three years. During this time she invaded and conquered Korea and then marched to Yamato to pacify a revolt. She continued to rule until he reached adulthood. She died at the age of 100 years, and was buried  at Tatanami in Saki

Ōjin Ōtomowake no Mikoto, also called Homudawake no Mikoto, Fifteenth Emperor of Japan and Great King of Yamato. Born in Umi, Northeast Kyushu after three years gestation, his mother ruled in his name until he reached adulthood, he exchanged his name with that of a god, becoming MiketsuŌkami. He marched on Yamato from Kyushu, with his mother and feels like a duplicate of First Emperor Jimmu, who is recorded to have performed a similar feat. He ruled from the Palace of Akira at Karushima. In his reign, the Confucian Analects were brought to Japan from Korea, the first interaction between China and Japan and the first writinng to reach Japan.

He married (first) Takagi no Iribime no Mikoto, (second) Nakatsuhime no Mikoto, Empress, and (third) Otohime no Mikoto, all daughters of Homuda no Mawaka no Miko, a grandson of Emperor Keiko (see above).

He married (fourth) Miyanushi Yakahaehime and (fifth) Onabe no Iratsume, daughters of Wani no Hifure, Omi of Wani.

He married (sixth) Okinagamawaka Ōnakatsuhime no Mikoto, a descendant of the famous hero, Yamatotakeru no Mikoto (see above).

He married (seventh) Itoihime, also called Magohime, daughter of Shimatarine, ancestor of the Rice-field Clan Muraji of Sakurai.

He married (eighth) Hiuga no Izumo no Nagahime.

He married (ninth) Kagurohime.

He married (tenth) Kazuraki no Nuirome.

He married (eleventh) Ehime, who is praised in the Nihonshoki for her filial piety.

He died at the Palace of Toyoakira or the Palace of Ōkuma, aged 130 (Kojiki) or 110 (Nihonshoki) years and was buried in Mofusa Kofun at Ega in Kafuchi. He is venerated to this day as the warrior god Hachiman.

• • 1) Nakuda no Ōnakatsuhiko no Mikoto (son of Takagi). He was granted Mountain lands after his father's death and sought the reclaimed rice terraces of Yamato, as former mountain land but was rebuffed.

  • 2) Ōyamamori no Mikoto (son of Takagi). He was ancestor of the Lords of Hijikata, Heki and Harihara. He was made his father's successor over the forests and seas. After his father's death he desired more and plotted to kill the new Emperor, Uji no Wakiiratsuko, but Nintoku warned him of this and Oyamamori was drowned and buried on Mount Nara.

  • 3) Iza no Mawaka no Mikoto (son of Takagi), ancestor of the Wake of Fukagawa.

  • 4) Nintoku Ōsazaki no Mikoto, Sixteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Nakatsuhime)

  • 5) Netori no Mikoto (son of Nakatsuhime). He was ancestor of the Lords of Ōda. He married his half-sister, Ahaji no Mihara no Iratsume (see below) and had issue:

    • a) Nakatsuhiko no Miko

    • b) Iwashiha no Miko

  • 6) Uji no Wakiiratsuko (son of Yakahaehime), he was made his father's successor. After his father's death he accidentally drowned his brother who was plotting against him. Deeply remorseful, he attempted to cede the office of Emperor to his brother Nintoku, who was too humble to accept it, until Uji died early.

  • 7) Wakanukefutamata no Mikoto (son of Ōnakatsuhime). He married his maternal aunt Otohime Mawakehime, also called Momoshikiirobe (see above) and had issue:

    • a) Ōiratsuko, also called Ōhodo no Miko, ancestor of the Lords of Mikuni, Hata, Okinaga, Sakahito in Sakata, Yamaji, Meta in Tsukushi, and Fuse.

    • b) Sume no Miko

    • a) Osaka no Ōnakatsuhime no Mikoto. She was the adopted ancestor of the Osaka Clan and married Ingyō, Nineteenth Emperor of Japan and had issue - see below.

    • b) Tai no Nakatsuhime. She was adopted ancestor of the Kawa Clan.

    • c) Tamiya no Nakatsuhime

    • d) Fujiwara no Kotofushi no Iratsume

    • e) Torime no Miko

  • f) Otohime, also called Sotohori no Iratsume. She married Ingyō, Nineteenth Emperor of Japan - see below.

• 8) Hayabusawake no Mikoto (son of Itoihime). He married his half-sister, Medori no Miko to whom he had been sent to organise her marriage to his brother, the Emperor Nintoku. For this crime he was killed by the Imperial Army at Soni in Usa. He had issue, including:

  • a) Ōto no Miko, who had issue, including:

    • i) Shihi no Miko, who had issue, including:

      • (1) Hikonushibito no Miko, who dwelt at Mio in Takashima. He married Furuhime, a descendant of Emperor Suinen. He had issue, but died shortly after:

        • (a) Keitai Ōdo no Mikoto, Twenty-Sixth Emperor of Japan - see below.

  • 9) Ōhae no Miko (son of Nagahime)

  • 10) Ohae no Miko (son of Nagahime)

  • 11) Kataji no Miko (son of Kagurohime).

• 12) Iza no Mawaka no Miko (son of Nuirome)

• 13) Katashiwa no Miko. He probably goes here, but is omitted from the first of the Kojiki's two genealogies for Emperor Ojin. He had issue:

  • a) Kuni no Miko

  • 1) Ōhara no Iratsume (daughter of Takagi)

  • 2) Komuku no Iratsume also called Komidahime no Iratsume (daughter of Takagi).

  • 3) Ki no Arata no Iratsume (daughter of Nakatsuhime)

  • 4) Abe no Iratsume (daughter of Otohime)

  • 5) Ahaji no Mihara no Iratsume (daughter of Otohime). She married her half-brother Netori no Mikoto and had issue - see above.

  • 6) Ki no Unu no Iratsume (daughter of Otohime)

  • 7) Minu no Iratsume (daughter of Otohime)

  • 8) Yata no Wakiiratsume (daughter of Yakahaehime). She married her half-brother Nintoku, Sixteenth Emperor of Japan, without issue.

  • 9) Medori no Miko (daughter of Otohime) She was desired by the Emperor Nintoku, but married her half-brother Hayabusawake no Mikoto and was killed by the Imperial Army at Soni in Usa..

• 10) Uji no Wakiiratsume (daughter of Onabe). She married her half-brother Nintoku, Sixteenth Emperor of Japan, without issue.

• 11) Hatabi no Wakiiratsume (daughter of Nagahime)

  • 12) Kaharada no Iratsume (daughter of Kagurohime)

  • 13) Tama no Iratsume (daughter of Kagurohime)

  • 14) Osaka no Ōnakatsuhime (daughter of Kagurohime)

  • 15) Tōhi no Iratsume (daughter of Kagurohime)

Nintoku Ōsazaki no Mikoto, Sixteenth Emperor of Japan and Great King of Yamato (son of Nakatsuhime). He was made his father's successor in government, but the actual position was supposed to go to his younger brother Uji no Wakiiratsuko; when he died after a few years, Nintoku became Emperor in name as well as fact. He ruled from the Palace of Takatsu at Naniwa. He saw that the people were poor and therefore cancelled taxes for three years, allowing his own Palace to fall into ruins during that time, so that the people might prosper, for which he was known as Seitei (Sage Emperor). During his reign, a wild goose laid an egg in Yamato.

He married (first) Iwa no Hime no Mikoto, Empress, adopted ancestor of the Katsuragi Clan, she went into self-imposed exile in Yamashiro on account of her extreme jealousy of the Emperor's other wives; she was the daughter of Katsuragi no Nagae no Sotsubiko, grandson of Kōgen, Eighth Emperor of Japan (See above).

He married (second) Hiuga no Kaminagahime, daughter of the Lord of Muragata, who had been wood by his father, but was gifted to Nintoku after their love became apparent.

He married (third) his half sister, Yata no Wakiiratsume (see above).

He married (fourth) his half sister, Uji no Wakiiratsume (see above).

He married  (fifth) Kurohime, daughter of the Omi of Ama in Kibi; she, fearing the jealousy of his chief wife, fled to Kibi, but the Emperor went and brought her back.

He died at the age of 83 (Kojiki) or after a reign of 87 years (Nihonshoki) and was buried at Mozu no Mimihara. He had issue:

• 1) Richū Ōe no Izahowake no Mikoto, Seventeenth Emperor of Japan (son of Iwa no Hime) - see below.

• 2) Sumi no E no Nakatsumiko (son of Iwa no Hime). He was sent to escort Emperor Richu's Empress to his Palace, and seduced her by stratagem. When this was discovered he attempted to kill the Emperor, by setting his palace alight. He was killed by a stratagem of the future Emperor Hanzei.

• 3) Hanzei Tajihi no Mizuhawake no Mikoto, Eighteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Iwa no Hime) - see below.

• 4) Ingyō Oasazuma no Wakugo no Sukune no Mikoto, Nineteenth Emperor of Japan (son of Iwa no Hime)  - see below.

• 5) Hatabi no Ōiratsuko, also called Ōkusaka no Miko (son of Kaminagahime). He married Nagata no Ōiratsume, sister and later wife of Ankō, Twentieth Emperor of Japan. He sent a gift to Emperor Ankō, which was stolen by the messenger, who covered his crime by claiming that Hatabi had insulted the Emperor, for which he was executed. He had issue, including:

  • 1) Mayowa no Miko. At the age of seven, he killed the Emperor Ankō, for the unjust execution of his father. The Emperor Yūryaku sought vengeance, and Mayowa had his retainers kill him rather than fall into his hands. 

  • 1) Wakekusakabe no Miko. She married Yūryaku Ōhatsuse no Mikoto, Twenty-First Emperor of Japan, without issue.

• 1) Hatabi no Wakiiratsume, also called Nagahihime no Mikoto and Wakakusakabe no Mikoto (daughter of Kaminagahime)