Winter, 10th month, 4th day. The Emperor was buried in the misasagi on the Plain of Mozu no Mimi.
The Emperor Midzuhawake was a younger brother by the same mother of the Emperor Izaho-wake. He was appointed Prince Imperial in the second year of the Emperor Izaho-wake. The Emperor was born in the Palace of Ahaji. At his birth his teeth were like one bone,[3] and his appearance was beautiful. Now there was a well called Midzu no wi (the beautiful well) from which water was drawn to wash the Heir[4] to the Throne. A tajihi[5] flower had fallen into this well and it was accordingly made the name of the Heir to the Throne. The tajihi flower is what is now the itadori flower. Therefore he was styled the Emperor Tajihi[6] no Midzuha-wake.
The Emperor Izaho-wake died in Spring, the 3rd month of the 6th year of his reign.
A.D. 406. 1st year, Spring, 1st month, 2nd day. The Heir Apparent assumed the Imperial Dignity.
- ↑ Midzu ha means beautiful teeth.
- ↑ This is explained to mean "the Emperor who turned matters into the right path," han meaning turn, and sei or shō "right."
- ↑ In the Bamboo Books ("Legge's Chinese Classics"), p. 143, there is mention of an ancient Chinese king whose teeth were one piece of bone. The "Kojiki" says (Ch. K., p. 292):—"The length of his august teeth was one inch, and their breadth two lines, and the upper and lower [row] corresponded exactly, like jewels strung [together]."
- ↑ He was not Heir at this time.
- ↑ The Polygonum Cuspidatum. Hepburn.
- ↑ The "Seishi roku" states that in consequence of this incident Tajihi Be were established in all the provinces to be the villages for the hot baths of the Imperial Princes.
