In this month an entertainment was given to men of Tanegashima[1] under the tsuki tree west of the Asuka Temple.
3rd month, 19th day. The Silla Envoys, Chhyöng-phyöng and the guests of lower rank to the number of thirteen, were invited to the capital.
Summer, 4th month, 11th day. Nagura Saita no Fubito, was convicted of scoffing at the Imperial[2] car, and was accordingly banished to the island of Idzu.
14th day. The Escort-Envoys, Chinna and the rest, were entertained in Tsukushi, and straightway returned home from there.
5th month, 1st day. The ceremony of announcing the first day of the month was omitted.
3rd day. The Emperor granted to the Oho-hakase,[3] a man of Pèkché named Sol-tan, the rank of Lower Daisen, and accordingly bestowed on him a fief of 30 houses. On this day Otokashi, the Yamato no Yeshi,[4] was granted the rank of Lower Shōsen and a fief of 20 houses.
7th day. A man of Silla named Pak Chăpha, of Ason rank, accompanied by three attendants and three Buddhist priests, was driven by stress of weather to the island of Chikashima.[5]
28th day. The Emperor gave orders to the Shrines of Heaven and the Shrines of Earth that the sacred rice-tax should be divided into three shares, one of which was to be set apart for the offerings to the Gods and the other two given to the Kannushi.[6]
In this month there was drought in the capital and the Home provinces, and prayers were made for rain.
6th month, 14th day. There was a great earthquake.
In this month the Emperor commanded the Yamato no Aya no Atahe, saying:—"Your family has from the beginning been (XXIX. 18.) guilty of the seven misdemeanours. From the Woharida[7] reign down to the Court of Afumi it has been the Emperor's constant
- ↑ An island off the south coast of Satsuma. It is notable as the place visited by Mendez Pinto and his companions in 1542, and where they first taught the inhabitants the use of firearms. Tanegashima means a pistol in Japanese at the present day.
- ↑ The Emperor is meant, but the writer does not dare to introduce him in such a connection.
- ↑ Great Doctor.
- ↑ Yamato painter.
- ↑ In Hizen.
- ↑ Shintō priests.
- ↑ Suiko Tennō.
