Jimmu
Japanese · mortal · jinmu era · Recorded classification
The whole point of the preceding blocks is him: the descent from Amaterasu through Ninigi, Hoori and Ugayafukiaezu exists in order to arrive at a man in Yamato with a claim, and the registry held the top of that chain and not the bottom. The 660 BC date is a seventh-century back-calculation — a grand cycle of 1,260 years counted back from a year the compilers cared about — and is recorded as what the chronicles say rather than as when anything happened.
Parentage
- parent: Ugayafukiaezu
- parent: Tamayori-hime
Domains
- kingship
- dynastic founder
Relations
- spouse: Hime-tatara I-suzu-himeNihongi I, Aston translation, I.61–62: alternative parentage of Hime-tatara I-suzu-hime (primary)
Sources
- Jimmu is the legendary first emperor of Japan in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, son of Ugayafukiaezu and Tamayori-hime, with a traditional accession date of 660 BC and no evidence of historical existence.: Reference treatments of Emperor Jimmu and of the scholarly assessment of his historicity. (secondary)