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“Ko-ji-ki,” or Records of Ancient Matters.
[Vol. XXIV.

Lords of Takasuka,[1] of the Dukes of Asuka,[2] and of the Lords of Mure).[3] The next, Her Augustness Yamato-hime, (was high-priestess of[4] the temple of the Great Deity of Ise). The next, King Ikobaya-wake (was the ancestor of the Lords of Anahobe at Saho).[5] The next, Her Augustness the Princess of Azami (was married to King Inase-biko). The next, King Ochi-wake (was the ancestor of the Mountain Dukes of Wotsuki[6] and of the Dukes of Koromo in Mikaha).[7] The next, King Ika-tarashi-hiko (was the ancestor of the Mountain Dukes Kasuga,[8] of the Dukes of Ike in Koshi,[9] and of the Dukes of Kasugabe).[10] The next, King Itoshi-wake (owing to his having no children, made the Itoshi Tribe[11] his proxy). The next, King Iha-tsuku-wake, (was the ancestor of the Dukes of Haguhi[12] and of the Dukes of Miwo.)[13] The next, Her Augustness Futaji-no-Iri-bime (became the empress of His Augustness Yamato-take).


  1. Takasuka no wake. Nothing is known either of the place or of the family.
  2. Asuka no kimi. It is not known where was this Asuka, which must not be confounded with the famous Asuka mentioned in Sect. CXXXIII, Note 11.
  3. Mure no wake. There are several places called Mure. The signification of the name is obscure.
  4. Or more literally, “worshipped and celebrated the festivals at,” etc.
  5. Saho no Anahobe-wake. The name Anahobe is derived from Anaho, the name of the Emperor Yū-riyaku, and be “a tribe,” it being related in the “Chronicles” that the tribe which was established as his “name-proxy” was so called.
  6. Wotsuki no yama no kimi. Wotsuki is the name of a place in Afumi (Ōmi). The family name must be interpreted to signify that they were wardens of the mountain.
  7. Mikaha no Koromo no kimi. Conf. the name in Note 40, with which this is probably identical. Motowori suspects an error in the text.
  8. Kasuga no yama no kimi. Conf. the name in Note 46.
  9. Koshi no ike no kimi. Nothing is known of the place or of the family. Koshi may or may not be the northern province of that name.
  10. Kasugabe no kimi. There were two places of the name of Kasugabe (i.e. “Kasuga Clan,” so called perhaps after a family that had resided there). It is not known which is here alluded to.
  11. Itoshi-be. The name, which is thus restored by Motowori, is variously mutilated in the older editions. This is the first mention of adoption, lit. in Japanese “child-proxy making” or “name-proxy making.” The custom is perpetually referred to in the later portion of these “Records.”
  12. Haguhi no kimi. Haguhi is the name of a district in Noto. The derivation is obscure.
  13. Miwo no kimi. Miwo is the name of a place in Afumi. It probably means “three mountain-folds.”