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Emperor Senka宣化天皇

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) 古事記 · Ō no Yasumaro · 712 (Japan, 5th year of Wadō) · 1 passages · 110 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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 Senka

建小廣國押楯命。坐檜埛之廬入野宮。治天下也。天皇。娶意意祁天皇之御子。橘之中比賣命。生御子。石比賣命。次小石比賣命。次倉之若江王。又娶川内之若子比賣。生御子。火穂王。次惠波王。此天皇之御子等并五王。故火穂王者。惠波王者。

Takeohirokunioshitate no Mikoto dwelt in the palace of Ihorino in Hinokuma (檜埛之廬入野宮) and ruled all under heaven.

The Emperor took to wife Tachibana no Nakatsuhime no Mikoto (橘之中比賣命), the daughter of Emperor Ohoke, and the children born were Ishihime no Mikoto (石比賣命), next Oishihime no Mikoto (小石比賣命), next Kura no Wakae no Miko (倉之若江王).

He also took to wife Wakugohime of Kawachi (川内之若子比賣), and the children born were Honoho no Miko (火穂王), next Eha no Miko (惠波王).

The children of this Emperor were five in all. So Honoho no Miko was (the ancestor of the Shihida no Kimi), and Eha no Miko was (the ancestor of the Ina no Kimi and the Tajihi no Kimi).

Interlinear notes 4

訓石如石。下效此。

The character 石 is read as ishi. The same follows below.

男三。女二。

Three boys and two girls.

志比陀君之祖。

Ancestor of the Shihida no Kimi (志比陀君).

韋那君。多治比君之祖也。

Ancestor of the Ina no Kimi (韋那君) and the Tajihi no Kimi (多治比君).

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