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The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, [1919], at sacred-texts.com


[SECT. CLXX.—EMPEROR KEN-ZŌ (PART IV.—HIS AGE AND PLACE OF BURIAL).]

So the Heavenly Sovereign died, and His Augustness Ohoke ruled the succession of Heaven's sun. 1 The Heavenly Sovereign's august years were thirty-eight

p. 422

years. His august mausoleum is on the mound of Ihatsuki at Katawoka. 2


Footnotes

421:1 p. 422 See Sect. XXXII, Note 27.

422:2 For Katawoka see Sect. LX, Note 29. Iha-tsuki probably means "rockplatter," and seems to have been the name of a little plateau.


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