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Emperor Ninken仁賢天皇

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) 古事記 · Ō no Yasumaro · 712 (Japan, 5th year of Wadō) · 1 passages · 134 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 Ninken

意意祁命。坐石上廣高宮。治天下也。天皇。娶大長谷若建天皇之御子。春日大郎女。生御子。高木郎女。次財郎女。次久須毘郎女。次手白髮郎女。次小長谷若雀命。次眞若王。又娶丸邇日爪臣之女。糠若子郎女。生御子。春日山田郎女。此天皇之御子。并七柱。此之中。小長谷若雀命者。治天下也。

Ohoke no Mikoto (意富祁命) dwelt in the palace of Hirotaka at Isonokami (石上廣高宮) and ruled all under heaven.

The Emperor took to wife Kasuga no Ohoiratsume (春日大郎女), the daughter of the Emperor Ohohatsuse Wakatakeru, and the children born were Takaki no Iratsume (高木郎女), next Takara no Iratsume (財郎女), next Kusubi no Iratsume (久須毘郎女), next Tashiraka no Iratsume (手白髮郎女), next Ohatsuse no Wakasazaki no Mikoto (小長谷若雀命), next Mawaka no Miko (眞若王).

He also took to wife Nukawakugo no Iratsume (糠若子郎女), the daughter of Hitsuma no Omi of Wani (丸邇日爪臣), and the child born was Kasuga no Yamada no Iratsume (春日山田郎女).

The children of this Emperor were seven in all. Among them Ohatsuse no Wakasazaki no Mikoto ruled all under heaven.

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