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Grandees of Ikuha,[1] of the Grandees of Ikuye[2] and of the Grandees of Agina);[3] moreover [there was] the Noble Waku-go[4] (the ancestor of the Grandees of Yenuma).[5] This Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were fifty-seven. His august mausoleum is on the mound in the middle of the Pool of Tsurugi.[6]
[Sect. LXII.—Emperor Kai-kuwa.]
His Augustness Waka-yamato-ne-ko-hiko-oho-bibi dwelt in the palace of Izakaha at Kasuga,[7] and ruled the Empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded the Princess of Takanu,[8] daughter of Yugori[9] the Great Departmental Lord of Taniha,[10] and begot an august child: His
- ↑ Ikuha no omi. The “Chronicles of Japan” tell us that the original form of this name Ikuha was uki-ha, i.e., “floating leaf,” and give a story to account for it. See Motowori’s Commentary, Vol. XXII, pp. 36–37, where the reason traditionally given to explain the fact of the name Ikuha being written with the character 的 is also mentioned at length.
- ↑ Ikuye no omi. Ikuye must have been the name of a place; but nothing is known of it.
- ↑ Agina no omi. The same observation applies to this as to the preceding name.
- ↑ Waku-go no sukune. Waku-go signifies “young child” or “youth,” an Honorific designation.
- ↑ Yenuma no omi. Yenuma is the name of a district in Kaga, and signifies “inlet-lagoon.”
- ↑ In Yamato. This pool or lake is often mentioned in the poems of the “Collection of a Myriad Leaves” and was celebrated for its lotus-flowers. We hear of it in the “Chronicles of Japan,” as having been dug in the reign of the Emperor Ō-jin, but it was probably, like many others, a natural pool or marsh, which was afterwards improved. The name signifies “sabre.”
- ↑ For Kasuga see Sect. LVIII, Note 7. Izakaha is a place in Yamato. The signification of the name is uncertain.
- ↑ Takanu-hime. Takanu is the name of a district in Tango, and signifies “bamboo moor.”
- ↑ The signification of this name is quite obscure.
- ↑ Taniha no oho-agata-nushi. Taniha (modern Tamba) is the name of a province (formerly including the province of Tango) in Central Japan. It is supposed to mean “the place of rice-fields,” the rice offered at the shrine of the Sun-Goddess in Ise being brought thence.
