Toyotowake

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Prince
  • Family: Emperor Keikō (father) Sonotakebime (mother) Kunichiwake (brother) Kunisewake (brother)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Toyotowake

Toyotowake (豊戸別皇子) was the son of Emperor Keikō and Sonotakebime according to the nihongi.¹

The kojiki states that he was the son of Keikō and ‘another concubine.’²

He is stated to have been the ancestor of the Wake of Hi Province (now Hizen and Higo in Kyushu).¹

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.

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