Tohotsunoayumemekuhashi

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Concubine
  • Family: Arakahatobe (father) Emperor Sujin (husband) Toyokiiribiko (son) Toyosukiiribime (daughter)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Tohotsunoayumemekuhashi

Tohotsunoayumemekuhashi (遠津年魚眼眼妙媛) was the concubine of Emperor Sujin. Together they had Toyokiiribiko¹²³ and Toyosukiiribime.²³

Footnotes included in Chamberlain (1932) say that the name is a good instance of verbal usage. The ayu-me part of her name means ‘trout eyes’ and is in fact a ‘pillow-word‘ for her name meaning ‘Princess Beautiful Eyes.’³

She is said to have been the daughter of Arakahatobe.²³⁴

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.
4. Ponsonby, F. (1959) “The Imperial House of Japan.” Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.

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