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Emperor Itoku懿德天皇

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) 古事記 · Ō no Yasumaro · 712 (Japan, 5th year of Wadō) · 1 passages · 123 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) Middle and Lower Books The oldest surviving book in Japan. Three volumes, beginning with the opening of heaven and earth, passing through the age of the gods, and closing with Empress Suiko. One hundred and five songs are written in man'yōgana, so a whole text survives in which the Chinese characters carry sound alone and not meaning. It sets down the same events differently from the Nihon Shoki at many points, and is well worth reading beside it.

1Emperor Itoku

大倭日子鉏友命。坐輕之境岡宮。治天下也。此天皇。娶師木縣主之祖。賦登麻和訶比賣命。亦名飯日比賣命。生御子。御眞津日子訶惠志泥命。次多藝志比古命。故御眞津日子訶惠志泥命者。治天下也。次當藝志比古命者。天皇。御年肆拾伍歳。御陵在畝火山之眞名子谷上也。

Ohoyamatohikosukitomo no Mikoto dwelt in the palace of Sakaioka in Karu (輕之境岡宮) and ruled all under heaven.

This Emperor took to wife Futomawakahime no Mikoto (賦登麻和訶比賣命), the ancestor of the Shiki no Agatanushi, whose other name was Iihihime no Mikoto (飯日比賣命), and the children born were Mimatsuhikokaeshine no Mikoto (御眞津日子訶惠志泥命), next Tagishihiko no Mikoto (多藝志比古命).

So Mimatsuhikokaeshine no Mikoto ruled all under heaven. Next, Tagishihiko no Mikoto was the ancestor of the Chinu no Wake and others.

The Emperor was forty-five years old. His tomb is above the valley of Manago (眞名子谷) on Mount Unebi.

Interlinear notes 3

自訶下四字以音。

The four graphs from 訶 on are read for their sound.

二柱。

Two children.

血沼之別。多遲麻之竹別。葦井之稻置之祖。

Ancestor of the Chinu no Wake (血沼之別), the Tajima no Takewake (多遲麻之竹別), and the Ashii no Inagi (葦井之稻置).

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