Yenahime

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: Wife
  • Family: Hikoimasu (husband) Ohōmata (son) Womata (son) Shibumi no Sukune (son)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Yenahime

Yenahime (山代之荏名津比売- Yamashiroenatsuhime?) also known as Karibatatobe (苅幡戸辨) was the wife of Hikoimasu.

It is said she married him in Yamashiro Province and together they had three sons called Ohōmata, Womata and Shibumi no Sukune.¹²

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.

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