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Emperor Buretsu武烈天皇
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 Buretsu
小長谷若雀命。坐長谷之列木宮。治天下捌歲也。此天皇。无太子。故爲御子代。定小長谷部也。御陵在片岡之石坏岡也。天皇既崩。無可知日續之王。故品太天皇五世之孫。袁本杼命。自近淡海國。令上坐而。合於手白髮命。授奉天下也。
Ohatsuse no Wakasazaki no Mikoto dwelt in the palace of Namiki in Hatsuse (長谷之列木宮) and ruled all under heaven for eight years.
This Emperor had no crown prince. So the Ohatsusebe (小長谷部) was appointed to stand as his mikoshiro (御子代). His tomb is on the hill of Iwatsuki in Kataoka (片岡之石坏岡).
When the Emperor had died, there was no prince who could carry on the succession of the sun. So they had Ohodo no Mikoto (袁本杼命), a descendant in the fifth generation of Emperor Homuda, come up from the land of Chikatsuafumi, and they joined him with Tashiraka no Mikoto (手白髮命) and gave him all under heaven.