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Section L. Emperor Jim-mu (Part VII.—The Empire Pacified)

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Section L. Emperor Jim-mu (Part VII.—The Empire Pacified)

So then His Augustness Nigi-hayabi waited on and said to the august child of the Heavenly Deity: “As I heard that [thou], the august child of the Heavenly Deity, hadst descended from Heaven, I have followed down to wait on thee.” Forthwith presenting to him the heavenly symbols, he respectfully served him. So His Augustness Nigi-hayabi wedded the Princess of Tomi, sister of the Prince of Tomi, and begot a child, His Augustness Umashi-ma-ji. (He was the ancestor of the Chiefs of the Warrior-Clan, of the Grandees of Hodzumi, and of the Grandees of the Neck-Clan.) So having thus subdued and pacified the savage Deities, and extirpated the unsubmissive people, [His Augustness Kama-yamato-ihare-biko] dwelt at the palace of Kashibara near Unebi, and ruled the Empire.

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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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