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THE MYTHICAL NARRATIVE.
tasted the food of the Idzube, and arraying his troops set forth upon his march."
Among those who made submission to Jimmu was Nigi-haya-hi, of whom it is told that he was a child of the Heavenly Deity, who had come down from Heaven riding in the "Rock-boat of Heaven," and married the sister of a local chieftain named Naga-sune-hiko (Prince Longshanks). His name and that of his son appear very frequently in the Shôjiroku genealogies.
Jimmu took to wife a daughter of the God Koto-shiro-nushi, or, according to the Kojiki, Oho-mono-nushi, by a mortal woman, and having established his capital at Kashihabara, in Yamato, b.c. 660,[1] reigned there until his death, b.c. 585, at the age of 127.
- ↑ Japanese history is said to begin from this date. In reality nothing deserving the name existed for nearly one thousand years more.
