The Emperor Tachibana no Toyohi was the fourth child of the Emperor Ame-kuni oshi-hiraki hiro-niha.[3] His mother's name was Kitashi hime. The Emperor believed in the Law of Buddha and reverenced the Way of the Gods.[4] In the fourteenth year of his reign, Autumn, the 8th month, the Emperor Nunakura futo-tama-shiki died.
9th month, 5th day. The Emperor assumed the Imperial dignity, and made his capital at Ihare, calling it the Palace of Namitsuki in Ikenobe.[5] Soga no Mŭmako no Sukune was made Oho-omi, and Mononobe no Yugehi no Moriya no Ohomuraji was made Ohomuraji, both as before.
19th day. The Emperor made command, saying:—etc., etc.[6]—appointing the Imperial Princess Nukade hime to the charge of the Shrine of Ise and to attend to the worship of the Sun-goddess.
This Imperial Princess, from the time of this Emperor until the reign of the Empress Kashikiya hime,[7] attended to the divine service of the Sun-goddess. She then retired
- ↑ This name means orange abundance-sun. Tachibana is, however, here the name of a village in Yamato.
- ↑ Yō means to use, employ; mei, brightness.
- ↑ Kimmei Tennō.
- ↑ Shintō. 神道. The first time this phrase is found. The "Yih-king" has, "The sage frames his doctrine by the Way of the Gods, and the Empire accepts it."
- ↑ Province of Yamato.
- ↑ The author omits the words of the edict, and only gives its general purport.
- ↑ Suiko Tennō.
