Okitsuyoso

• Period: Legendary Period
• Occupation: –
• Family: Amenooshio (father?) Yosotarashi Hime (sister)
• Birth: –
• Death: –

Okitsuyoso

Okitsuyoso is mentioned in the Kojiki as the older brother of Yosotarashi Hime. He is said to be the ancestor of the Wohari no Muraji.¹

His father is presumably Amenooshio as he is listed as the father of Yosotarashi Hime by Ponsonby.²

However, the Nihongi and Jinnō Shōtōki state that he was the father of Yosotarashi Hime and not her brother.³⁴

Footnotes

1. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.
2. Ponsonby, F. (1959) “The Imperial House of Japan.” Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
3. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
4. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.

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