Hikosajima

• Period: Legendary Period
• Occupation: Prince
• Family: Emperor Kōrei (father) Haeirode (mother) Wakatakehiko (brother) Toyoki no Mikoto (grandfather?)
• Birth: –
• Death: –

Hikosajima

Hikosajima (彦狭島命) was the son of Emperor Kōrei and Haeirodo¹² and brother to Wakatakehiko.²

The nihongi also states he was the grandson of Toyoki no Mikoto (though I am unsure where it fits into the geneologies we have built on the webiste so far.)¹

In the kojiki his name differs slightly to the nihongi where he is called Hikosamame.²

He is listed as the Ancestor of the Grandess of Uzhika in Harima.³

In the 54th year of Emperor Keikō’s reign, Hikosajima was sent to govern the 15 Provinces of the Tōsandō, arriving at the village of Anashi in Kasuga he falls ill and dies, being buried in Kōzuke Province.¹

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.
3. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.

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