Takanohime

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Empress
  • Family: Emperor Kaika (husband) Yugori (father) Hikoyumusumi (son)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Takanohime

Takanohime (竹野媛) was the concubine of Emperor Kaika with whom she had Hikoyumusumi.¹² She is said to have been the daughter of Yugori.¹³

Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
3. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.

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