Ohokashima

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Five Daibu / saishu
  • Family: –
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Ohokashima

Ohokashima is a mentioned during the reign of Emperor Suinin. He is said to have been one of the Five Daibu alongside Hikokunifuku, Takehi no Muraji, Tochine no Ōmuraji and Takenumakahawake. They are gathered by Emperor Suinin to talk of the wisdom of the previous Emperor.¹

In the Jinnō Shōtōki he is said to be an ancestor of Nakatomi, held the title of mikoto, and was the first High Priest (saishu) at the Ise Grand Shrine.²

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.

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