Torishikaya

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Kumaso Leader
  • Family: –
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Torishikaya

Torishikaya was one of the leaders of the Kumaso, leading one of the Kumaso Rebellions.

Yamato Takeru is sent to deal with the threat, bringing several men with him. When he arrives, he disguises himself as a woman, gaining a seat next to the Kumaso leader at a feast.

Once the leader becomes drunk, Yamato Takeru takes a out a hidden sword and stabs him in the breast, though he doesnt immediately die. Torishikaya asks who he is giving him his new name of Yamato Dake before he is finally killed.

Following this the remaining Kumaso are killed by the men he brought with him.¹

The Jinnō Shōtōki gives the leader name of Takeruhito Konokamitori Ishikaya.²

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.

	Check out the Japan Archives, our Japanese History Podcast. Instagram (Japan): @japan_archives
	Check out our Gaming Channel on Youtube. Instagram (Minecraft): @mycenria
	Find the website useful? Please consider donating to help up keep the website running.