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Section CXXXIX. Emperor In-giyō (Part III.—He Rectifies the People’s Names)

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English · Basil Hall Chamberlain

Section CXXXIX. Emperor In-giyō (Part III.—He Rectifies the People’s Names)

Thereupon the Heavenly Sovereign, lamenting the transgressions in the surnames and gentile names of the people of all the surnames and names in the Empire placed jars [for trial by] hot water at the Wondrous Cape of Eighty Evils in Words at Amakashi, and deigned to establish the surnames and gentile names of the eighty heads of companies. Again the Karu Tribe was established as the august proxy of King Karu of Ki-nashi; the Osaka Tribe was established as the Empress’s august proxy; and the Kaha Tribe was established as the august proxy of the Empress’s younger sister Ta-wi no Naka-tsu-hime.

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Basil Hall Chamberlain's translation (1882). Following the conventions of his time, he put a few sexually explicit passages into Latin rather than English.

“Ko-ji-ki,” or Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. X, supplement (Yokohama, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. · Source ↗

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