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eign, are of opinion that the reign of that Emperor really began some hundreds of years later.
42. The Emperor Jimmu started on an expedition for the so-called “Eastern Conquest” from Kyushu, the western district of Japan, to Yamato, in the east, so here the “eastern provinces” denotes the Yamato district.”
43. By this Nagasune-Hiko is meant. He was one of the most stubborn opponents of the Emperor Jimmu and was killed by Nigihayahi-no-Mikoto, according to the Nihongi account (W. G. Aston’s E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 128).
44. According to the Nihongi, this man met the Emperor Jimmu at Port Hayasui in Bungo Province and was employed in the service of the Imperial army whilst en route to Usa in Buzen Province, and afterwards he was ordered to assend Mt. Kagu in Yamato in disguise and there obtain a small lump of earth which it was indispensable to use when invoking the gods for victory. They succeeded in bringing it back safely to the Imperial camp despite the vigilance of their foes (W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 112).
45. Vide ibid., Vol. I, p. 116.
46. In archaic Japanese “Mi-Araka” means “august or divine abode.”
47. Here the sovereign Grandson means the Emperor Jimmu.
48. “Miki” means “august wood,” i.e., “sacred timbers.”
49. This is another Awa in the Kanto, in contradistinction to that of Shikoku, and therefore it is often called Boshu, and is now a portion of Chiba Prefecture. So in this text Awa-no-Kori means the present Awa or Boshu Province.
