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of Fuse).[1] Again King Netori wedded his younger half-sister the Lady Mihara, and begot children: King Naka-tsu-hiko;[2] next King Iwashima.[3] (Two Kings.) Again the child of King Katashiha[4] was King Kunu.[5]
[Sect. CXVIII.—Emperor Ō-jin (Part XV.—His Age and Place of Burial).]
The august years of this Heavenly Sovereign Homuda were altogether one hundred and thirty. His august mausoleum is on the mound of Mofusu[6] at Wega in Kafuchi.
- ↑ Fuse no kimi. Fuse is a name of uncertain import found in several provinces. It is not known which is meant to be here designated.
- ↑ Naka-tsu-hiko no miko, i.e. “the middle prince,” a designation which would lead one to expect to find mention of an elder brother.
- ↑ Iwashima no miko. Iwashima seems to be the name of a place, but the signification of Iha (not to be confounded with iha, “stone” or “rock”) is altogether obscure.
- ↑ Katashiha no miko. This prince has not been mentioned in the previous genealogies, which is curious. Katashiha is the name of a place in Chikuzen, and signifies “hard rock.”
- ↑ Kunu no miko. Kunu is altogether obscure.
- ↑ Or, as Motowori reads it, Mofushi. The etymology is uncertain. Wega has already appeared in Sect. CIII (Note 3). The Old Printed Edition and some Manuscripts have at the conclusion of this volume the following note: 百舌鳥陵也. “It is the mausoleum of Mozu.” But Mozu is in the province of Idzumi, and all the later editions discard this note as an interpolation.
