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Kamu-yamato-iware-biko-hohodemi-no-mikoto

The editor of the Chronicles of Japan introduced the expression of an old book that the Sumera-mikoto was known by name of Kamu-yamato-iware-biko-hohodemi-no-Sumera-mikoto, because he was the first Sumera-mikoto who at Unebi in Kashi-hara set up a pillar of the palace solidly on a foundation stone, which towered above Takama-no-hara, and began to reigned over this nation.

The Sons of the Sumera-mikoto

On the regnal year, the Sumera-mikoto paid reverence and conferred the title of the Kou-gou to Hime-tatara-isuzu-hime-no-mikto. The Kou-gou bored two sons, Kamu-yai-mimi-no-mikoto and Kamu-nunakawa-mimi-no-mikoto. It is a wonder that editor of the Kojiki enumerated another son, Hiko-yai-no-mikoto, who was the eldest among these princes.

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A Problem of the Chronicles of Japan

On the other hand, the editor of the Kojiki scarcely left the dates from which we can infer correct years when historical events occurred in the ancient times of Japan. It is regretful for us that confirmation of dates of ancient events is nearly impossible by 91. A.D. when Sujin-Tennow ascended the Sumera-mikoto.

The Intention of the Editor of the Chronicles of Japan

Concerning the setting of the first year of the Sumera-mikoto, the editor of the Chronicles of Japan must have regarded the accession to the throne at the Kashi-hara palace as a great revolution in the Japanese history. Therefore, even if 660B.C. would be a fictitious year, he dared to set it on the Shinn-Yuu which had been believed as a revolutionary year, according to the theory of the Shinn-I-Reki-Unn.

Japan and the Theory of the Shinn-I-Reki-Unn

The year of the national foundation of Japan, 660 B.C., falls on that of the Sinn-Yuu. According to the theory of the Shinn-I-Reki-Unn, which counts years with a sixty-agenary cycle, Years of Sinn-Yuu come every sixty years and it has been considered that some revolutionary events were to break out during this year.

The Meaning of the Year of National Foundation

Though it is plausible that the first nation in Japan should have been found in the seventh century B.C. as described in the history book, the year of the national foundation, 660 B.C., must have been set up intentionally by the editor of the Chronicle of Japan who wished to give meaning to it.

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The Beginning of the Yayoi-era in Japan

It has been generally believed that the Yayoi-era, when some tribes came across the sea from the west and introduced a rice crop in the Japanese Archipelago with irrigating the paddy field, begun in the third century B.C. Recently, however, excavations of ruins suggest that the time of the beginning of the Yayoi-era could go back to more than two hundred years before that of the established theory.