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Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)

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[Sect. XLV.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part II.—The Cross-sword Sent Down from Heaven).]

So when His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko made a progress round from thence, and reached the village of Kumanu, a large bear came out of the mountain, and forthwith disappeared into it. Then His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko suddenly fainted away, and his august army likewise all fainted and fell prostrate. At this time Takakurazhi (this is the name of a person) of Kumanu came bearing one cross-sword to the place where the august child of the Deity was lying prostrate, and presented it to him, upon which the august child of the Heavenly Deity forthwith rose up, and said: “How long I have slept!” So when he accepted the cross-sword, the savage Deities of the mountains of Kumanu all spontaneously fell cut down. Then the whole august army, that had been bewildered and had fallen prostrate, awoke and rose up. So the august child of the Heavenly Deity asked him how he had got the cross-sword. Takakurazhi replied, saying: “I was told in a dream that the two Deities the Heaven-Shining-Great-Deity and the High Integrating Deity commanded and summoned the Brave-Awful-Possessing-Male-Deity, and charged him [thus]: ‘The Central Land of Reed-Plains is painfully uproarious,—it is. Our august children must he ill at ease. As [therefore] the Central Land of Reed-Plains is a land which thou specially subduedst, thou the Brave-Awful-Possessing-Male-Deity shalt descend [thither].’ Then he replied, saying: ‘I will not descend [myself], but I have the cross-sword wherewith I specially subdued the land. (The name by which this sword is called is the Deity Thrust-Snap; another name by which it is called is the Deity Awful-Snap, and another name for it is the August-Snap-Spirit. This sword dwells in the temple of the Deity of Isonokami.) The manner in which I will send this sword down will be to perforate the ridge of [the roof of] Takakurazhi’s store-house, and drop it through!’ {So the Brave-Awful-Possessing-Male-Deity instructed me, saying: ‘I will perforate the ridge of [the roof of] thy store-house, and drop this sword through.} So do thou, with the good eyes of morning, take it and present it to the august child of the Heavenly Deity.’ So, on my searching my store-house early next morning in accordance with the instructions of the dream, there really was a cross-sword there. So I just present this cross-sword to thee.”

[Sect. XLVI.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part III.—The Gigantic Crow and Gods with Tails).]

“Then His Augustness the Great-High-Integrating-Deity again commanded and taught, saying: ‘August son of the Heavenly Deity! make no progress hence into the interior. The savage Deities are very numerous. I will now send from Heaven a crow eight feet [long]. So that crow eight feet [long] shall guide thee. Thou must make thy progress following after it as it goes.” So on [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] making his progress following after the crow eight feet [long] in obedience to the Deity’s instructions, he reached the lower course of the Yeshinu river, where there was a person catching fish in a weir. Then the august child of the Heavenly Deity asked, saying: “Who art thou?” He replied, saying: “I am an Earthly Deity and am called by the name of Nihe-motsu no Ko.” (This is the ancestor of the Cormorant-Keepers of Aha). On [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] making his progress thence, a person with a tail came out of a well. The well shone. Then [His Augustness] asked: “Who art thou?” He replied, saying: “I am an Earthly Deity, and my name is Wi-hika.” (This is the ancestor of the Headmen of Yeshinu). On his forthwith entering the mountains, His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko again met a person with a tail. This person came forth pushing the cliffs apart. Then [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] asked: “Who art thou?” He replied, saying: “I am an Earthly Deity, and my name is Iha-oshi-waku no Ko. I heard [just] now that the august son of the Heavenly Deity was making his progress. So it is for that that I have come to meet thee.” (This is the ancestor of the Territorial Owners of Yeshinu). Thence [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] penetrated over on foot to Uda.” So they say: “The Ugachi of Uda.”

[Sect. XLVII.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part IV.—The Ukashi Brethren).]

So then there were in Uda two persons, Ukashi the Elder Brother and Ukashi the Younger Brother. So [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] sent the crow eight feet [long] in advance to ask these persons, saying: “The august child of the Heavenly Deity has made a progress [hither]. Will ye respectfully serve him?” Hereupon Ukashi the Elder Brother waited for and shot at the messenger with a whizzing barb to made him turn back. So the place where the whizzing barb fell is called Kabura-zaki. Saying that he intended to wait for and smite [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko], he [tried to] collect an army. But being unable to collect an army, he said deceitfully that he would respectfully serve [His Augustuess Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko], and built a great palace, and in that palace set a pitfall, and waited. Then Ukashi the Younger Brother came out to [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] beforehand, and made obeisance, saying: “Mine elder brother Ukashi the Elder Brother has shot at and turned back the messenger of the august child of the Heavenly Deity, and, intending to wait for and attack thee, has [tried to] collect an army; but, being unable to collect it, he has built a great palace, and set a gin within it, intending to wait for and catch thee. So I have come out to inform [thee of this].” Then the two persons His Augustness Michi-no-Omi, ancestor of the Ohotomo Chieftains, and His Augustness Ohokume, ancestor of the Kume Lords, summoned Ukashi the Elder Brother and reviled him, saying: “Into the great palace which thou hast built to respectfully serve [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko], be thou the first to enter, and declare plainly the manner in which thou intendest respectfully to serve him;”—and forthwith grasping the hilts of their cross-swords, playing with their spears, and fixing arrows [in their bows], they drove him in, whereupon he was caught in the gin which he himself had set, and died. So they forthwith pulled him out, and cut him in pieces. So the place is called Uda-no-Chihara. Having done thus, [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] bestowed on his august army the whole of the great banquet presented [to him] by Ukashi the Younger Brother. At this time he sang, saying: “The woodcock, for which I laid a woodcock-snare and waited in the high castle of Uda, strikes not against it; but a valiant whale strikes against it. If the elder wife ask for fish, slice off a little like the berries of the standing soba; if the younger wife ask for fish, slice off a quantity like the berries of the vigorous sakaki.”

“Ugh! pfui! dolt! This is saying thou rascal. Ah! pfui! dolt! This is laughing [him] to scorn.”

So Ukashi the Younger Brother (he is the ancestor of the Water-Directors of Uda).

[Sect. XLVIII.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part V.—The Earth-spiders of the Cave of Osaka).]

When [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] made his progress, and reached the great cave of Osaka, earth-spiders with tails, [namely] eighty bravoes, were in the cave awaiting him. So then the august son of the Heavenly Deity commanded that a banquet be bestowed on the eighty bravoes. Thereupon he set eighty butlers, one for each of the eighty bravoes, and girded each of them with a sword, and instructed the butlers, saying: “When ye hear me sing, cut [them down] simultaneously.” So the Song by which he made clear to them to set about smiting the earth-spiders said: “Into the great cave of Osaka people have entered in abundance, and are [there]. Though people have entered in abundance, and are [there], the children of the augustly powerful warriors will smite and finish them with [their] mallet-headed [swords], [their] stone-mallet [swords]: the children of the augustly powerful warriors, with [their] mallet-headed [swords], [their] stone-mallet [swords], would now do well to smite.

Having thus sung, they drew their swords, and simultaneously smote them to death.

[Sect. XLIX.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part VI.—The Prince of Tomi and the Shiki Brethren).]

After this, when about to smite the Prince of Tomi, he sang, saying: “The children of the augustly powerful army will smite and finish the one stem of smelly chive in the millet-field,—the stem of its root, both its root and shoots.”

Again he sang: “The ginger, which the children of the augustly powerful army planted near the hedge, resounds in the mouth. I shall not forget it. I will smite and finish it.”

Again he sang, saying: “Like the turbinidæ creeping round the great rock in the sea of Ise [on which blows] the divine wind, [so] will we creep round, and smite and finish them.”

Again when he smote Shiki the Elder Brother and Shiki the Younger Brother, the august army was temporarily exhausted. Then he sang, saying: “As we fight placing our shields in a row, going and watching from between the trees on Mount Inasa, oh! we are famished. Ye keepers of cormorants, the birds of the island, come now to our rescue!”

[Sect. L.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part VII.—The Empire Pacified).]

So then His Augustness Nigi-hayabi waited on and said to the august child of the Heavenly Deity: “As I heard that [thou], the august child of the Heavenly Deity, hadst descended from Heaven, I have followed down to wait on thee.” Forthwith presenting to him the heavenly symbols, he respectfully served him. So His Augustness Nigi-hayabi wedded the Princess of Tomi, sister of the Prince of Tomi, and begot a child, His Augustness Umashi-ma-ji. (He was the ancestor of the Chiefs of the Warrior-Clan, of the Grandees of Hodzumi, and of the Grandees of the Neck-Clan.) So having thus subdued and pacified the savage Deities, and extirpated the unsubmissive people, [His Augustness Kama-yamato-ihare-biko] dwelt at the palace of Kashibara near Unebi, and ruled the Empire.

So when he dwelt in Himuka, [His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko] wedded Princess Ahira, younger sister of the Duke of Wobashi in Ata, and begot children: there were two,—His Augustness Tagishi-mimi, next His Augustness Kisu-mimi. But when he sought for a beautiful maiden to make her his Chief Empress, His Augustness Oho-kume said: “There is here a beauteous maiden who is called the august child of a Deity. The reason why she is called the august child of a Deity is that the Princess Seya-datara, daughter of Mizokuhi of Mishima, was admired on account of her beauty by the Great-Master-of-Things the Deity of Miwa, qui, quum pulchra puella oletum fecit, in sagittam rubro [colore] fucatam se convertit, et ab inferiori parte cloacæ [ad usum] faciendi oleti virginis privatas partes transfixit. Tunc pulchra virgo cousternata est, et surrexit, et trepide fugit. Statim sagittam attulit, et juxta thalamum posuit. Subito [sagitta] formosus adolescens facta est, qui cito pulchram puellam sibi in matrimonio junxit, et filiam procreavit nomine Hoto-tatara-i-susugi-hime; et est nomen alternativum Hime-tatara-i-suke-yori-hime. (Id est posterior mutatio nominis, quoniam abhorruit facere mentionem privatarum partinm). So therefore she is called the august child of a Deity. Hereupon seven beauteous maidens were out playing on the moor of Takasazhi, and I-suke-yori-hime was among them. His Augustness Ohokume, seeing I-suke-yori-hime, spoke to the Heavenly Sovereign in a Song, saying: “Seven maidens on the moor of Takasazhi in Yamato:—which shall be interlaced?”

Then I-suke-yori-hime was standing first among the beauteous maidens. Forthwith the Heavenly Sovereign, having looked at the beauteous maidens, and knowing in his august heart that I-suke-yori-hime was standing in the very front, replied by a Song, saying: “Even [after nought but] a fragment [ary glimpse], I will intertwine the lovely [one] standing in the very front.”

Then His Augustness Ohokume informed I-suke-yori-hime of the Heavenly Sovereign’s decree, whereupon she, seeing the slit sharp eyes of His Augustness Ohokume, sang in her astonishment, saying: “??

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“Wherefore the slit sharp eyes?”

Then His Augustness Ohokume replied by a Song, saying: “My slit sharp eyes [are] in order to find the maiden immediately.”

So the maiden said that she would respectfully serve [the Heavenly Sovereign]. Hereupon the house of Her Augustness I-suke-yori-hime was on [the bank of] the River Sawi. The Heavenly Sovereign made a progress to the abode of I-suke-yori-hime, and augustly slept [there] one night. (The reason why that river was called the River Sawi was that on the River’s banks the mountain-lily-plant grew in abundance. So the name of the mountain-lily-plant was taken, and the designation of River Sawi [bestowed]. The name by which the mountain-lily- plant was originally called was sawi.) Afterwards, when I-suke-yori-hime came and entered into the palace, the Heavenly Sovereign sang augustly saying: “In a damp hut on the reed-moor having spread layer upon layer of sedge mats, we two slept!”

The names of the august children thus born were: His Augustness Hiko-ya-wi, next His Augustness Kamu-ya-wi-mimi, next His Augustness Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi (Three Deities).

[Sect. LII.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part. IX—Troubles Which Followed His Decease).]

So when, after the decease of the Heavenly Sovereign, the elder half-brother, His Augustness Tagishi-mimi, wedded the Empress I-suke-yori-hime, he plotted how he might slay his three younger brethren, pending which their august parent I-suke-yori-hime lamented, and made [the plot] known to her august children by a Song. The Song said: “From the River Sawi the clouds have risen across, and the leaves of the trees have rustled on Mount Unebi: the wind is about to blow.”

Again she sang, saying: “Ah! What rest on Mount Unebi as clouds in the day-time, will surely blow as wind at night-fall, [whence] the rustling of the leaves!”

When hereupon her august children, hearing and knowing [of the danger], were alarmed and forthwith were about to slay Tagishi-mimi, His Augustness Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi said to his elder brother His Augustness Kamu-ya-wi-mimi: “Thy dear Augustness, [do thou] take a weapon, and go in and slay Tagishi-mimi.” So he took a weapon and went in, and was about to slay him. But his arms and legs trembled so, that he was unable to slay him. So then the younger brother His Augustness Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi begged [to be allowed] to take the weapon which his elder brother held, and went in and slew Tagishi-mimi. So again, in praise of his august name, he was called His Augustness Take-nuna-kaha-mimi. Then His Augustness Kamu-ya-wi-mimi resigned [in favour of] the younger brother His Augustness Take-nuna-kaba-mimi, saying: “I could not slay the foeman; but Thine Augustness was at once able to slay him. So, though I be the elder brother, it is not right that I should be the superior. Wherefore do Thine Augustness be the superior, and rule [all] beneath the Heaven. I will assist Thine Augustness, becoming a priest, and respectfully serving thee.”

So His Augustness Hiko-ya-wi (is the ancestor of the Chieftains of Mamuta, and of the Chieftains of Teshima). His Augustness Kamu-ya-wi-mimi (is the ancestor of the Grandees of Oho, of the Chieftains of the Tribe of Chihisako, of the chieftains of the Tribe of Sakahi, of the Dukes of Hi, of the Dukes of Ohokida, of the Dukes of Aso, of the Chieftains of the Granaries of Tsukushi, of the Grandees of the Sazaki Tribe, of the Rulers of the Tribe of Sazaki, of the Rulers of Wo-Hatsuse, of the Suzerains of Tsuke, of the Rulers of the land of Iyo, of the Rulers of the land of Shinanu, of the Rulers of the land of Ihaki in Michinoku, of the Rulers of the Land of Naka in Hitachi, of the Rulers of the land of Nagasa, of the Suzerains of Funaki in Ise, of the Grandees of Niha in Wuhari, and of the Grandees of Shimada.)

[Sect. LIV.—Emperor Jim-mu (Part XI.—His Age and Place of Burial).]

His Augustness Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi ruled the Empire. Altogether the august years of this Heavenly Sovereign Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko were one hundred and thirty-seven. His august mausoleum is on the top of the Kashi Spur on the northern side of Mount Unebi.

His Augustness Kamu-nuna-kaha-mimi dwelt at the palace of Takawoka in Kadzuraki, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded Kaha-mata-bime, ancestress of the Departmental Lords of Shiki, and begot an august child: His Augustness Shiki-tsu-hiko-tama-de-mi (one Deity). The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were forty-five. His august mausoleum is on the Mound of Tsukida.

His Augustness Shiki-tsu-hiko-tama-de-mi dwelt in the palace of Ukiana at Kata-shiha, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded Akuto-hime, daughter of the Departmental Lord Haye, elder brother of Kaha-mata-bime, and begot august children: His Augustness Toko-ne-tsu-hiko-irone, next His Augustness Oho-yamato-hiko-suki-tomo, next His Augustness Shiki-tsu-hiko. Of the august children of this Heavenly Sovereign,—three Deities,—His Augustness Oho-yamato-hiko-suki-tomo [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. There were two Kings, children of the next [brother], His Augustness Shiki-tsu-hiko. One child (was the ancestor of the Territorial Lords of Suchi in Iga, of the Territorial Lords of Nabari, and of the Territorial Lords of Minu); one child, His Augustness Wa-chi-tsumi, dwelt in the palace of Miwi in Ahaji. So this King had two daughters: the name of the elder was Hahe-irone, and another name for her was Her Augustness Princess Oho-yamato-kuni-are; the name of the younger was Hahe-irodo. The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were forty-nine. Augustum mausoleum est in privatis partibus Montis Unebi.

His Augustness Oho-yamato-hiko-suki-tomo dwelt in the palace of Sakahiwo at Karu, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded her Augustness Princess Futo-ina-waka, another name for whom was Her Augustness Princess Ihi-bi, ancestress of the Departmental Lords of Shiki, and begot august children: His Augustness Mi-ma-tsu-hiko-kawe-shine, next His Augustness Tagishi-hiko (two Deities). So His Augustness Mi-ma-tsu-hiko-kawe-shine [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. The next His Augustness Tagishi-hiko (was the ancestor of the Lords of Chinu, of the Lords of Take in Tajima, and of the Territorial Lords of Ashiwi). The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were forty-five. His august mausoleum is above the Vale of Manago by Mount Unebi.

His Augustness Mi-ma-tsu-hiko-kawe-shine dwelt at the palace of Waki-no-kami in Kadzuraki, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded Her Augustness Princess Yoso-taho, younger sister of Oki-tsu-yoso, ancestor of the Chiefs of Wohari, and begot august children: His Augustness Ame-oshi-tarashi-hiko, and next His Augustness Oho-yamato-tarashi-hiko-kuni-oshi-bito (two Deities). Now the younger brother, His Augustness Tarashi-hiko-kuni-oshi-bito [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. The elder brother His Augustness Ame-oshi-tarashi-hiko (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Kasuga, the Grandees of Ohoyake, the Grandees of Ahata, the Grandees of Wonu, the Grandees of Kaki-no-moto, the Grandees of Ichihiwi, the Grandees of Ohosaka, the Grandees of Ana, the Grandees of Taki, the Grandees of Haguri, the Grandees of Chita, the Grandees of Muza, the Grandees of Tsunuyama, the Dukes of Ihitaka in Ise, the Dukes of Ichishi, and the Rulers of the Land of Chika-tsu-Afumi).

The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were ninety-three. His august mausolum is on Mount Hakata at Waki-no-kami.

His Augustness Oho-yamato-tanashi-hiko-kuni-oshi-bito dwelt in the palace of Akidzushima at Muro in Kadzuraki, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded his niece Her Augustness Princess Oshika, and begot august children: His Augustness Oho-kibi-no-moro-susumi, next His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-futo-ni (two Deities). So His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-futo-ni [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were one hundred and twenty-three. His august mausoleum is on the Mound of Tamade.

His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-futo-ni dwelt at the palace of Ihodo at Kuruda, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded Her Augustness Princess Kuhashi, daughter of Ohome, ancestor of the Departmental Lords of Tohochi, and begot an august child: His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-kuni-kuru (one Deity). Again he wedded Princess Chiji-haya-ma-waka of Kasuga, and begot an august child: Her Augustness Princess Chiji-haya (one Deity). Again wedding Her Augustness Princess Oho-yamato-kuni-are, he begot august children: Her Augustness Yamato-to-mo-so-bime; next His Augustness Hiko-sashi-kuta-wake; next His Augustness Hiko-isa-seri-biko, another name for whom is His Augustness Oho-kibi-tsu-hiko; next Yamato-to-bi-haya-waka-ya-hime (four Deities). Again he wedded Hahe-irodo, younger sister of Her Augustness Princess Are, and begot august children,—His Augustness Hiko-same-ma, next His Augustness Waka-hiko-take-kibi-tsu-hiko (two Deities). The august children of this Heavenly Sovereign [numbered] in all eleven Deities (five kings and three queens). So His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-kuni-kuru [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. The two Deities His Angustness Oho-kibi-tsu-hiko and His Augustness Waka-take-kibi-tsu-hiko together set sacred jars at the front of the River Hi in Harima; and, making Harima the mouth of the road, subdued and pacified the Land of Kibi. So His Augustness Oho-kibi-tsu-hiko (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Kamu-tsu-michi in Kibi). The next, His Augustness Waka-hiko-take-kibi-tsu-hiko (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Shimo-tsu-michi in Kibi, and of the Grandees of Kasa). The next His Augustness Hiko-same-ma (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Uzhika in Harima). The next, His Augustness Hiko-sashi-kata-wake (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Tonami in Koshi, of the Grandees of Kunisaki in the land of Toyo, of the Dukes of Ihobara, and of the Maritime Suzerains of Tsunuga). The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were one hundred and six. His august mausoleum is at Uma-saka at Katawoka.

His Augustness Oho-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-kuni-kuru dwelt in the palace of Sakaki-bara at Karu, and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded Her Augustness Utsu-shiko-me, younger sister of His Augustness Utsu-shiko-wo, ancestor of the Grandees of Hodzumi, and begot august children: His Augustness Oho-biko, next His Augustness Sukuna-biko-take-wi-gokoro; next His Augustness Waka-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-oho-bibi (three Deities). Again, wedding Her Augustness I-gaka-shiko-me, daughter of His Augustness Utsu-shiko-wo, he begot an august child: His Augustness Hiko-futsu-oshi-no-makoto. Again, wedding Princess Haniyasu, daughter of Awotama of Kafuchi, he begot an august child, His Augustness Take-hani-yasu-biko (one Deity). The august children of this Heavenly Sovereign [numbered in all five Deities]. So His Augustness Waka-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-oho-bibi [was he who afterwards] ruled the Empire. The children of his elder brother, His Augustness Oho-biko, were His Augustness Take-nuna-kaba-wake (ancestor of the Grandees of Abe); next His Augustness Hiko-inakoshi-wake. (This was the ancestor of the Butler Grandees.) His Augustness Hiko-futsu-oshi-no-makoto wedded Princess Takachina of Kadzuraki, younger sister of Oho-nabi, ancestor of the Chiefs of Wohari, and begot a child: the Noble Umashi Uchi. (This was the ancestor of the Grandees of Uchi in Yamashiro.) Again, wedding Princess Yama-shita-kage, younger sister of Udzu-hiko, ancestor of the Rulers of the Lord of Ki, he begot a child, the Noble Take-Uchi. The children of this Noble Take-Uchi [numbered] in all nine (seven males and two females),—[namely] the Noble of Hata-no-Yashiro, [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Hata, of the Grandees of Hayashi, of the Grandees of Hami, of the Grandees of Hoshikaha, of the Grandees of Afumi, and of the Dukes of the Hatsuse Tribe); next the Noble Kose-no-Wo-Kara [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Kose, of the Grandees of the Sazaki Tribe, and of the Grandees of the Karu Tribe); next the Noble Soga no Ishikaha [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Soga, of the Grandees of Kahanobe of the Grandees of Tanaka, of the Grandees of Takamuko, of the Grandees of Woharida, of the Grandees of Sakurawi, and of the Grandees of Kishida); next the Noble Heguri-no-Tsuku, [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Heguri, of the Grandees of Sawara, and of the Uma-mi-kuhi Chiefs); next the Noble Ki-no-Tsunu [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Ki, of the Grandees of Tsunu, and of the Grandees of Sakamoto); next Princess Mato of Kume; next Princess Nu-no-iro; next Kadzuraki-no-Nagaye-no-sotsu-biko [who] (was the ancestor of the Grandees of Tamade, of the Grandees of Ikuha, of the Grandees of Ikuye and of the Grandees of Agina); moreover [there was] the Noble Waku-go (the ancestor of the Grandees of Yenuma). This Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were fifty-seven. His august mausoleum is on the mound in the middle of the Pool of Tsurugi.