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8. The second of the eight classes of Court Nobles established by the Emperor Temmu (A.D. 681).
9. In the Nihongi, he is called Amatsu-Hiko-Hikoho-no-Ninigi-no-Mikoto. Vide W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 64.
10. The third of the eight classes of Court Nobles. The title implies an hereditary rank of nobility.
11. In the Nihongi version, the Ancestor of the Imbe Family of Ki-i Province. Vide W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 81.
12. Ha-Akaru-Tama in one account of the Nihongi appears to be Kushi-Akaru-Tama-no-Mikoto. Vide W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 37. The late Prof. Kurita of the Tokyo Imperial University identified Kushi-Akaru-Tama-no-Mikoto with Toyotama of the Nihongi (ibid., Vol. I, p. 47) and Ame-no-Akaru-Tama of the same book (ibid., Vol. I, p. 49).
Vide the late Prof. Kurita’s Shinsen-Shoji-Roku[errata 1] or Commentary on the Catalogue of Family Names Newly Compiled by Prince Manta (Japanese edition, Vol. XI, p. 791).
13. In ancient Japan, a rare jewel being regarded as a divine object, possessed a magical influence, and was a kind of fetish, so in the present instance, it is possible that through the magical virtue of the jewels a child was actually born.
In the Sendai-Kuji-Hongi, the Japanese reader is very familiar with a certain jewel of magical virtue, called “Makaru-Kaeshi-no-Tama,” i.e., the “Jewel endowed with a miraculous power of restoring the dead to life” (Vide the Kokushi-Taikei, Japanese edition, Vol. VII, p. 321, 322).
The Nihongi also mentions two notable magical gems, which
