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His Augustness Oho-biko, were His Augustness Take-nuna-kaba-wake[1] (ancestor of the Grandees of Abe);[2] next His Augustness Hiko-inakoshi-wake.[3] (This was the ancestor of the Butler Grandees.)[4] His Augustness Hiko-futsu-oshi-no-makoto wedded Princess Takachina of Kadzuraki,[5] younger sister of Oho-nabi,[6] ancestor of the Chiefs of Wohari,[7] and begot a child: the Noble Umashi Uchi.[8] (This was the ancestor of the Grandees of Uchi in Yamashiro.)[9] Again, wedding Princess Yama-shita-kage,[10] younger sister of Udzu-hiko,[11] ancestor of the Rulers of the Lord of Ki,[12] he begot a child, the Noble Take-Uchi.[13] The
- ↑ Take signifies “brave.” Wake is either “young” or “lord.” For Nuna-kaha see Sect. LI, Note 31.
- ↑ Abe no omi. There are several places called Abe, and it is doubtful to which of them the text here refers.
- ↑ The signification of inakoshi seems to be “rice-chariot.” Hiko is “prince,” and wake either “young” or “lord.”
- ↑ Kashihade no omi. This name is traditionally referred to an incident in the reign of the Emperor Kei-kō, who is said to have bestowed it on one of his attendants who served up to him a particularly savoury dish of shell-fish. “Butlers” (perhaps the word might also be rendered “cooks”) have been mentioned towards the end of Sect. XXXII, and again in the legend of Jim-mu’s slaughter of the “earth-spiders” related in Sect. XLVIII.
- ↑ Kazduraki-no-takachina-bime-no-mikoto. The signification of Takachina is obscure.
- ↑ By aphæresis for Oho-inabi, the form of the name given in the “Chronicles of Old Matters of Former Ages,” itself perhaps standing by apocope for Oho-ina-biko, which would signify “great rice-prince.”
- ↑ Wohari no murazhi.
- ↑ Umashi Uchi no sukune. Umashi signifies “sweet,” and Uchi is the name of a place in Yamashiro.
- ↑ Yamashiro no Uchi no omi.
- ↑ This name may be rendered literally “the shade beneath the mountains”; but the signification is “the glow from the autumn leaves on the mountain-side.”
- ↑ I.e., probably “wonderful (or precious) prince.”
- ↑ Ki no kuni no miyatsuko no oya.
- ↑ Take-Uchi no sukune. Take signifies “brave,” and Uchi is the name of a district in Yamato. The common, but erroneous, reading of this name is Take no Uchi no sukune. This celebrated personage, who may be styled the Methuselah of Japan, is said to have lived during the reigns of five Emperors, who themselves averaged over a hundred years of life each. His own age is variously given as 255, 260, etc. up to 360 years.
