Toyosukiiribime

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Princess
  • Family: Emperor Sujin (father) Tohotsunoayumemekuhashi (mother) Toyokiiribiko (brother)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Toyosukiiribime

Toyosukiiribime (豊鍬入姫命) was the daughter of Emperor Sujin and Tohotsunoayumemekuhashi.

The kojiki states that she was High Priestess at the Ise Grand Shrine.¹²

The Jinnō Shōtōki states that during the reign of Sujin, he had a copy of the Sacred Sword and Mirror made. They were entrusted into the care of Toyosukiiribime who built a sacred enclosure in Kasanui in Yamato to worship them in. Later she was instructed by Amaterasu to journey the provinces with the Sword and Mirror.³

Later she would entrust the care of Amaterasu onto Yamatohime.⁴

Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.
3. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.
4. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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