Sonotakebime

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: –
  • Family: Emperor Keikō (husband) Kunisewake (son) Toyotowake (son) Kunichiwake (son)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Sonotakebime

Sonotakebime (襲武媛) was one of the several wives of Emperor Keikō. Together they had three sons by the name of Kunisewake, Toyotowake and Kunichiwake according to the nihongi.¹

The kojiki list another child for her, this being Nunoshi no Iratsume.²

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.

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