Empress Iwa-no hime
Empress Iwa-no hime (磐姫皇后, Iwanohime-kōgō), also known as Iwa-no hime no Mikoto, was the Empress consort of Emperor Nintoku, who was the 16th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.[1] No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, nor to that of his first wife. Nintoku is considered to have ruled the country during the late-fourth century and early-fifth century, but there is a paucity of information about him. There is insufficient material available for further verification and study.
Literature
Poems which Iwa-no hime is said to have exchanged with her husband are related in the Kojiki and in the Nihon shoki.[2] Nintoku is reported to have suffered the resentment of the Iwa-no hime during a period in which he stopped the collection of taxes, which meant that even ordinary repairs to the palace were also deferred.[3]
Poetry attributed to Iwan-no hime are included in the Man'yōshū;[2] but modern scholars advise a healthy skepticism in these difficult to verify attributions.[4]
- Longing for Emperor Nintoku (君が行き 日長くなりぬ 山たずね 迎へか行かむ 待ちにか待たむ).[5]
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Since my lord has gone away;
So shall I go and meet him. |
Burial mound tomb
The Imperial tomb of Iwa-no hime no Mikoto, is said to be located in Saki-chō in the city of Nara.[7] Both kofun-type Imperial tombs are characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.[8]
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 22-24; Varley, Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 110-111.
- ^ a b Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "Iwa no Hime," Japan encyclopedia, p. 409.
- ^ Brownlee, John S. and Tarō Sakamoto. (1991). The Six National Histories of Japan, p. 64.
- ^ Hall, John Whitney et al. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan: Ancient Japan, p. 474.
- ^ Poem No. 2-85, Man'yōshū Best 100;
- ^ Cranston, Edwin A. (1998). A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup, p. 51.
- ^ Iwa-no hime no Mikoto's misasagi -- map (upper right)
- ^ see kofun context of kofun-like elements
References
- Brownlee, John S. and Tarō Sakamoto. (1991). The Six National Histories of Japan. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 10-ISBN 0-774-80379-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-774-80379-3]
- Cranston, Edwin A. (1998). A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-804-73157-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-804-73157-7
- Hall, John Whitney, Delmer M. Brown, Marius B. Jansen. (1993). The Cambridge History of Japan: Ancient Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10-ISBN 0-521-22352-0; 13-ISBN 978-0-521-22352-2
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
See also
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