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Emperor Seimu成務天皇

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) 古事記 · Ō no Yasumaro · 712 (Japan, 5th year of Wadō) · 1 passages · 122 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 Seimu

若帶日子天皇。坐近淡海之志賀高穴穂宮。治天下也。此天皇。娶穂積臣等之祖。建忍山垂根之女。名弟財郎女。生御子和訶奴氣王。故建内宿禰爲大臣。定賜大國。小國之國造。亦定賜。國國之堺。及大縣。小縣之縣主也。天皇。御年。玖拾伍歳。御陵在沙紀之多他那美也。

Emperor Wakatarashihiko dwelt in the palace of Takaanaho at Shiga in Chikatsuafumi (志賀高穴穂宮) and ruled all under heaven.

This Emperor took to wife Ototakara no Iratsume (弟財郎女), the daughter of Takeoshiyamatarine (建忍山垂根), the ancestor of the Hozumi no Omi and others, and the son born was Wakanuke no Miko (和訶奴氣王).

He made Takeuchi no Sukune his prime minister (大臣), and appointed the kuni no miyatsuko of the great lands and the small lands, and fixed the borders of the several lands and appointed the agatanushi of the great agata and the small agata.

The Emperor was ninety-five years old. His tomb is at Tatanami in Saki (沙紀之多他那美).

Interlinear notes 1

一柱。

One child.

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