Oketsuhime

Oketsuhime can refer to two people with the same name.

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Concubine
  • Family: Emperor Kaika (husband) Hikoimasu (son) Oketsuhime (sister – see below) Hikokunioketsu (father)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Oketsuhime

Oketsuhime (意祁都比売命) was the concubine of Emperor Kaika with whom she had a son by the name of Hikoimasu.¹²³

She is said to have been the daughter of Hikokunioketsu and older sister to a woman by the same name.²³

The younger sister with the same name married her sisters son (Hikoimasu) and togrther they had three children named Yamashiro no Oho Tsutsuki no Mawaka, Hioosu and Irine.²³

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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