Hoori

Three generations from the descent to the first emperor and the middle one was missing from the registry entirely. The story is a folk-tale — a lost borrowed tool, a journey to an undersea palace, a wife who must not be watched — welded to a dynastic genealogy, and the weld is visible: the fish-hook has nothing to do with kingship and everything to do with why the hunter's line ended up on top of the fisherman's.

Parentage

• parent: Ninigi
• parent: Konohanasakuya-hime

Children

• Ugayafukiaezu

Domains

• hunting

Relations

• sibling: HoderiThe elder, whose hook he lost.Reference treatment of the two brothers and the fish-hook. (secondary)
• spouse: Toyotama-himeReference treatment of Hoori's marriage to Toyotamahime at the bottom of the sea. (secondary)
• father of: UgayafukiaezuThe child born in the birth-hut on the shore.Reference treatment of Ugayafukiaezu as the child of Hoori and Toyotama-hime. (secondary)

Sources

• Hoori, Yamasachihiko, is the youngest son of Ninigi and Konohanasakuya-hime, who lost his brother's fish-hook, went to the sea-god's palace to find it, married Toyotama-hime and fathered Ugayafukiaezu.: Reference treatments of Hoori, Toyotama-hime and the fish-hook episode. (secondary)