Haeirodo

• Period: Legendary Period
• Occupation: Concubine
• Family: Emperor Kōrei (husband) Wakatakehiko (son) Hikosajima (son) Princess Are (sister)
• Birth: –
• Death: –

Haeirodo

Haeirodo (絙某弟) was one of the concubines of Emperor Kōrei. She is said to have been the mother of Wakatakehiko in the kojiki and nihongi¹ but she has an additional child called Hikosajima listed in the kojiki.²

She is said to have been the younger sister of Princess Are.²

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.

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