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Emperor Yōmei用明天皇

Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) 古事記 · Ō no Yasumaro · 712 (Japan, 5th year of Wadō) · 1 passages · 141 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 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 Yōmei

橘豐日命。坐池邊宮。治天下參歲。此天皇。娶稻目宿禰大臣之女。意富藝多志比賣。生御子。多米王。又娶庶妹間人穴太部王。生御子。上宮之厩戶豐聰耳命。次久米王。次植栗王。次茨田王。又娶當麻之倉首比呂之女。飯女之子。生御子。當麻王。次妹須加志呂古郎女。此天皇。御陵在石寸掖上。後遷科長中陵也。

Tachibana no Toyohi no Mikoto dwelt in the palace of Ikenohe (池邊宮) and ruled all under heaven for three years.

This Emperor took to wife Ohokitashihime (意富藝多志比賣), the daughter of Iname no Sukune, the prime minister, and the child born was Tame no Miko (多米王).

He also took to wife his half-sister Hashihito no Anahobe no Miko, and the children born were Umayado no Toyotomimi no Mikoto of Kamitsumiya (上宮之厩戶豐聰耳命), next Kume no Miko (久米王), next Uekuri no Miko (植栗王), next Mamuta no Miko (茨田王).

He also took to wife Ihime no Ko (飯女之子), the daughter of Kura no Obito Hiro of Tagima (當麻之倉首比呂), and the children born were Tagima no Miko (當麻王), next his sister Sugashiroko no Iratsume (須加志呂古郎女).

The tomb of this Emperor was at Ikenohe in Iware (石寸掖上), and later it was moved to the middle tomb at Shinaga (科長中陵).

Interlinear notes 4

一柱。

One child.

四柱。

Four children.

上宮之厩戶豐聰耳命

Prince Shōtoku. ― translator

石寸掖上

The source text writes 掖上; it is taken as an error for 池上, read Ikenohe. ― translator

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