Tomi-ya-bime

Mortal princess of the pre-Yamato chieftaincy at Tomi. Three names across sources — Tomi-ya-bime in Kojiki, Mikashikiya-hime and Nagahashi-hime in Nihon Shoki and Sendai Kuji Hongi. Mother of Umashimaji by Nigihayahi.

Children

• Umashimaji-no-Mikoto

Relations

• sibling: Nagasunehiko
• sibling: Nagasunehiko (the "Long-Shins-Lord", chieftain of the Tomi region and first opponent of Emperor Jimmu, brother of Tomi-ya-bime) · JapaneseSister of Nagasunehiko, Yamato chieftain who resists Jimmu — one source of the Mononobe-vs-imperial tension.Kojiki ch. 51 (primary)
• spouse: Nigihayahi-no-MikotoReciprocal of japanese_kojiki_nigihayahi.spouse — Heavenly kami; weds the mortal Tomi-ya-bime, by whom he fathers Umashimaji (already linked as his child).Kojiki II (Jimmu chapter); Sendai Kuji Hongi, Tenson-hongi (Nigihayahi weds Tomi-ya-bime, sister of Nagasunehiko) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Kojiki ch. 51 (primary); Nihon Shoki bk. 3 (primary); Sendai Kuji Hongi bk. 5 (primary)