Tochine

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

Tochine

Tochine is a mentioned during the reign of Emperor Suinin and is stated as a member of the Mononobe Clan with the rank of Ōmuraji.

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

Later in the Emperors reign he notes he has not heard of the Divine Treasures for some time and so sends the Tochine to check on them. He makes a report and is put in charge of them.¹

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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