Heavenly Sovereign wedded the Lady Oho-takara,[1] daughter of Take-oshiyama-tari-ne,[2] ancestor of the Grandees of Hodzumi,[3] and begot an august child: King Waka-nuke[4] (one Deity). So [the Heavenly Sovereign] raised the Noble Take-uchi[5] [to the office of] Prime Minister,[6] deigned to settle the Rulers of the Great Countries and Small Countries,[7] and likewise deigned to settle the boundaries of the various countries, as also the Departmental Lords of the Great Departments and Small Departments.[8] The Heavenly Sovereign’s august years were ninety-five, and his august mausoleum is at Tatanami near Saki.[9]
[Sect. XCV.—Emperor Chiū-ai (Part I.—Genealogies).]
The Heavenly Sovereign Tarashi-naka-tsu-hiko dwelt at the palace of Toyora at Anado,[10] and likewise at the palace of Kashihi[11] in Tsukushi,
- ↑ Oto-takara no iratsume. Oto signifies “younger [sister],” and takara is “treasure.”
- ↑ Oshiyama is the name of a place in Ise, take signifies “brave,” and tari and ne are Honorifics of frequent occurrence.
- ↑ Hodzumi no omi. See Sect. LXI, Note 4.
- ↑ Waka-nuke no miko. This name is of doubtful signification, and Motowori suspects that it is corrupt, and that the true reading would be Waka-take, “young-brave.”
- ↑ See Sect. LXI, Note 25.
- ↑ 大臣. Motowori tries to prove that in the earliest times this official title was simply an Honorific surname formed by prefixing the Adjective 大, “great” to 臣, a surname read “Omi” (the character signifies properly “attendant,” “subject.”) Probably like other “gentile names” it combined both characters, and had a tendency to become hereditary.
- ↑ Oho-kuni wo-kuni no kuni no miyatsuko.
- ↑ Oho-agata wo-agata no agata nushi (大縣小縣之縣主). Their duties are supposed to have consisted in supervising the government farms.
- ↑ For Saki see Sect. LXXV, Note 5. Tatanami may perhaps signify “putting shields is a row.”
- ↑ For Anudo see Sect. LXXX (Note 22). Toyora (for Toyo-ura) signifies “fertile shore.”
- ↑ This name seems to be derived from that of the evergreen oak. It will be noticed that both these capitals are in the South-Western Island of Kiushiu, whereas, from Jim-mu downwards, the capitals of all the Emperors previously mentioned are either in Yamato or in one of the adjacent central provinces.
