Ashamed of the exposure of her real identity, Toyotama-hime went back to the palace of the deity of sea, angry at her husband’s breach of the promise that he never looked her childbed. Toyotama-hime, however, left her younger sister in so as to foster her new-born baby. The reason why the name of the baby was Hikonagisa-take-ugaya-fukiaezu-no-mikoto was that he was born while the roof of the childbirth cabin had not been yet thatched. Ugaya means a childbirth cabin and fukiaezu signifies that one has not thatched the roof with cogongrasses or leaves of Japanese plum yew.
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