Empress Jingu

• • Reign: c.201-269AD
  • Period: Legendary Period
  • Family: Okinaga no sukune (father) Kadzuraki no Takanukahime (mother) Emperor Chuai (husband) Emperor Ojin (son) Soratsuhime (sister) Okinagahiko (brother)
  • Burial Place: –
  • Order of Succession: Predecessor Emperor Chuai * Successor Emperor Ojin

Empress Jingu

Empress Jingu (神功天皇) also known as Jingu Kogo (神功皇后)¹ and Okinagatarashihime (息長帯比売命)²³ (c.201-269AD¹) was the mother of the fifteenth Emperor Ojin.

She was a part of the Imperial Family before her marriage to Emperor Chuai as she was a daughter of the Imperial Prince Okinaga no sukune. Her mother was Kadzuraki no Takanukahime.²³

During her reign she carried out conquests against the lands of Silla, with the Shinto kami Nakatsutsuo, Uhatsutuso and Sokotsutso watching over this land after her exploits there.²

Footnotes

1. Tsurumi, P. (1981) “Early Female Emperors” Historical Reflections Vol.8 No.1 pp.41-49.
2. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.

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