Ikagashikome

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Concubine
  • Family: Emperor Kōgen (husband) Hikofutooshimakoto (son) Utsushikowo (father?) Ōhesoki (father?) Emperor Kaika (husband) Emperor Sujin (son) Mimatsuhime (daughter)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Ikagashikome

Ikagashikome (伊香色謎命) was the concubine of Emperor Kōgen and together they had Hikofutooshimakoto. Ancestor to Takeuchi no Sukune.¹²³ The kojiki states her father was Utsushikowo.²³

However, Ponsonby,the Jinnō Shōtōki and nihongi state her father was called Ōhesoki.¹⁴⁵

She would later become the Empress of Emperor Kaika, though he was her step son. And together they had the future Emperor Sujin¹⁴ and Mimatsuhime.²

Later she was given the title of Kodaigo by her son in the “1st year, Spring, 1st month, 13th” of his reign.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.
4. Ponsonby, F. (1959) “The Imperial House of Japan.” Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
5. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.

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