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{{Short description|4th Emperor of Japan}}
{{Infobox royalty
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| name = Emperor Itoku<br>{{nobold|{{lang|ja|懿徳天皇}}}}
| name = Emperor Itoku<br>{{nobold|{{lang|ja|懿徳天皇}}}}
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| image = Tennō Itoku thumb.jpg
| image = Tennō Itoku thumb.jpg
| caption =
| caption =
| reign = 510 BC – 477 BC (traditional)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/genealogy/img/keizu-e.pdf|title=Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan|work=Kunaicho.go.jp|access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref>
| reign = 510 BC – 477 BC (traditional)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322210732/http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/genealogy/img/keizu-e.pdf|archivedate=March 22, 2011|url=http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/genealogy/img/keizu-e.pdf|title=Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan|work=Kunaicho.go.jp|access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref>
| coronation =
| coronation =
| cor-type = Japan
| cor-type = Japan
| predecessor = [[Emperor Annei|Annei]]
| predecessor = [[Emperor Annei|Annei]]
| successor = [[Emperor Kōshō|Kōshō]]
| successor = [[Emperor Kōshō|Kōshō]]
| posthumous name = ''Japanese style'':Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Sumeramikoto ({{lang|ja|大日本彦耜友天皇}}),<br> ''also'' Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Mikoto ({{lang|ja|大倭日子鉏友命}})<br>''Chinese style'': Emperor Itoku ({{lang|ja|懿徳天皇}})
| posthumous name = [[Posthumous name#Chinese-style (Han-style) shigō|Chinese-style ''shigō'']]:<br/>Emperor Itoku ({{lang|ja|懿徳天皇}})<br/><br/>[[Posthumous name#Japanese-style shigō|Japanese-style ''shigō'']]:<br/>Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Sumeramikoto ({{lang|ja|大日本彦耜友天皇}})
| spouse = Amonotoyototsu-hime
| spouse = {{ill|Amonotoyototsu-hime|ja|天豊津媛命}}
| issue = {{plainlist|
| issue = {{plainlist|
*[[Emperor Kōshō]]
*[[Emperor Kōshō]]
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{{Nihongo|'''Emperor Itoku'''|懿徳天皇|Itoku-tennō}}, also known as {{Nihongo||大倭日子鉏友命|''Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Mikoto''}} was the fourth [[legend|legendary]] [[Emperor of Japan]], according to the traditional [[List of Emperors of Japan|order of succession]].<ref name="kunaicho">{{cite web|url=http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/ryobo/guide/004/index.html|title=懿徳天皇 (4)|work=[[Imperial Household Agency]] (Kunaichō)|language=ja|access-date=May 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Brown 251">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Emperor+Itoku.|title=A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219|author=[[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida|publisher=University of California Press|year=1979|page=251|isbn=9780520034600}}</ref> Very little is known about this Emperor due to a lack of material available for further verification and study. Itoku is known as a "legendary emperor" among historians as his actual existence is disputed. Nothing exists in the [[Kojiki]] other than his name and genealogy. Itoku's reign allegedly began in 510 BC, he had one wife and two sons. After his death in 477 BC, his first son supposedly became the [[Emperor Kōshō|next emperor]].
{{Nihongo|'''Emperor Itoku'''|懿徳天皇|Itoku-tennō}}, also known as {{Nihongo||大倭日子鉏友命|''Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Mikoto''}} was the fourth [[legend|legendary]] [[Emperor of Japan]], according to the traditional [[List of Emperors of Japan|order of succession]].<ref name="kunaicho">{{cite web|url=http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/ryobo/guide/004/index.html|title=懿徳天皇 (4)|work=[[Imperial Household Agency]] (Kunaichō)|language=ja|access-date=May 9, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Brown 251">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Emperor+Itoku.|title=A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219|author=[[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida|publisher=University of California Press|year=1979|page=251|isbn=9780520034600}}</ref> Very little is known about this emperor due to a lack of material available for further verification and study. Itoku is known as a "legendary emperor" among historians as his actual existence is disputed. Nothing exists in the [[Kojiki]] other than his name and genealogy. Itoku's reign allegedly began in 510 BC, he had one wife and two sons. After his death in 477 BC, his first son supposedly became the [[Emperor Kōshō|next emperor]].


==Legendary narrative==
==Legendary narrative==
In the ''[[Kojiki]]'' and ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', only Itoku's name and genealogy were recorded. While the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, no extant contemporary records have been discovered that confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. Itoku is believed to be the son of Emperor Annei, and his mother is believed to have been Nunasoko-Nakatsu-hime. The latter of the two is allegedly the granddaughter of Kotoshiro-Nushi-no-kami.<ref name="Varley 89">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ|title=Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns|author=[[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul.]]|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1980|page=89|isbn=9780231049405}}</ref> The ''Kojiki'' records that Itoku was the second or third son of [[Emperor Annei]], but the surviving documents provide no basis for speculating why the elder brother or brothers were passed over for the throne.<ref name="Brown 251"/><ref name="Varley 89"/> He is traditionally believed to have ruled from the palace of {{Nihongo||軽之境岡宮|[[Migario-no-miya]]|extra=and in the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'' as {{Nihongo2|軽曲峡宮}}}} at [[Karu, Yamato|Karu]] in what would come to be known as [[Yamato Province]].<ref name="Brown 251"/> At some point he married a woman named ''Amonotoyototsu-hime'', and fathered two sons with her. Itoku's reign lasted from 510 BC until his death in 477 BC, his son then took the throne and would later be referred to as [[Emperor Kōshō]].<ref name="Fane">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=Itoku|title=''The Imperial House of Japan''|author=[[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]|publisher=Ponsonby Memorial Society|year=1959|pages=29–30 & 418}}</ref>
In the ''[[Kojiki]]'' and ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', only Itoku's name and genealogy were recorded. While the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, no extant contemporary records have been discovered that confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. Itoku is believed to be the son of Emperor Annei, and his mother is believed to have been [[Nunasokonakatsu-hime]]. The latter of the two is allegedly the granddaughter of [[Kotoshironushi]].<ref name="Varley 89">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ|title=Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns|author=[[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul.]]|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1980|page=89|isbn=9780231049405}}</ref> The ''Kojiki'' records that Itoku was the second or third son of [[Emperor Annei]], but the surviving documents provide no basis for speculating why the elder brother or brothers were passed over for the throne.<ref name="Brown 251"/><ref name="Varley 89"/> He is traditionally believed to have ruled from the palace of {{Nihongo||軽之境岡宮|[[Migario-no-miya]]|extra=and in the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'' as {{Nihongo2|軽曲峡宮}}}} at [[Karu, Yamato|Karu]] in what would come to be known as [[Yamato Province]].<ref name="Brown 251"/> At some point he married a woman named ''{{ill|Amonotoyototsu-hime|ja|天豊津媛命}}'', and fathered two sons with her. Itoku's reign lasted from 510 BC until his death in 477 BC, his son then took the throne and would later be referred to as [[Emperor Kōshō]].<ref name="Fane">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=Itoku|title=''The Imperial House of Japan''|author=[[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]|publisher=Ponsonby Memorial Society|year=1959|pages=29–30 & 418}}</ref>


==Known information==
==Known information==
[[File:Itoku misasagi Nara.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Itoku.]]
[[File:Itoku misasagi Nara.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Itoku.]]


The existence of at least the first nine Emperors is disputed due to insufficient material available for further verification and study.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/kofun.html|title=Kofun Culture|author=Kelly, Charles F.|work=www.t-net.ne.jp|access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref> ''Itoku'' is thus regarded by historians as a "legendary Emperor", and is considered to have been the third of [[Nihon Shoki#Kesshi Hachidai (Eight undocumented monarchs)|eight Emperors without specific legends associated with them]].{{efn|Also known as the {{Nihongo|"eight undocumented monarchs"|欠史八代|''Kesshi-hachidai''}}.<ref name="aston">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_oEfAAAAYAAJ|title=Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 2|author=[[William George Aston|Aston, William George.]]|publisher=The Japan Society London|date=1896|pages=109, 142–143}}</ref>}} The name Itoku''-tennō'' was assigned to him [[Posthumous name|posthumously]] by later generations, and literally means "benign virtue".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjapanes00kikugoog|title=''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the end of the Meiji Era''|author=[[Francis Brinkley|Brinkley, Frank]]|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica Company|year=1915|page=[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjapanes00kikugoog/page/n33 21]|quote=Posthumous names for the earthly ''Mikados'' were invented in the reign of Emperor Kanmu (782–805), i.e., after the date of the compilation of the ''Records'' and the ''Chronicles.''}}</ref> His name might have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Itoku, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the [[Yamato dynasty]] were compiled as the chronicles known today as the ''[[Kojiki]]''.<ref name="aston"/> While the actual site of Itoku's [[grave (burial)|grave]] is not known, the Emperor is traditionally venerated at a [[memorial]] [[Shinto]] [[shrine]] (''misasagi'') in [[Kashihara, Nara|Kashihara]]. The [[Imperial Household Agency]] designates this location as Itoku's [[mausoleum]]. It is formally named ''Unebi-yama no hitsujisaru Mihodo no i no e no misasagi''.<ref name="Fane"/> The first emperor that historians state might have actually existed is [[Emperor Sujin]], the 10th emperor of Japan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/27/reference/life-in-the-cloudy-imperial-fishbowl/#.UhYzedK-2uI|title=Life in the Cloudy Imperial Fishbowl|newspaper=Japan Times|author=Yoshida, Reiji.|date=March 27, 2007|access-date=May 16, 2019}}</ref> Outside of the Kojiki, the reign of [[Emperor Kinmei]]{{efn|The 29th Emperor<ref name="Titsingh pp. 34-36">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon%20o%20dai%20itsi%20ran&pg=PA34|title=Nihon Ōdai Ichiran|author=[[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac.]]|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland|language=fr|year=1834|pages=34–36}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&pg=PA261|title=A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219|author=[[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida|publisher=University of California Press|year=1979|pages=261–262|isbn=9780520034600}}</ref>}} ({{circa|509}}&nbsp;– 571 AD) is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axRyAAAAMAAJ&q=According+to+legend%2C+the+first+Japanese+Emperor+was+Jimmu.+Along+with+the+next+13+Emperors%2C+Jimmu+is+not+considered+an+actual%2C+historical+figure.+Historically+verifiable+Emperors+of+Japan+date+from+the+early+sixth+century+with+Kimmei.|title=''Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds''|author=Hoye, Timothy.|publisher=Prentice Hall|year=1999|page=78|isbn=9780132712897|quote=According to legend, the first Japanese Emperor was Jimmu. Along with the next 13 Emperors, Jimmu is not considered an actual, historical figure. Historically verifiable Emperors of Japan date from the early sixth century with Kimmei.}}</ref> The conventionally accepted names and dates of the early Emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" though, until the reign of [[Emperor Kanmu]]{{efn|Kanmu was the 50th sovereign of the [[Yamato dynasty]]}} between 737 and 806 AD.<ref name="aston"/>
The existence of at least the first nine Emperors is disputed due to insufficient material available for further verification and study.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/kofun.html|title=Kofun Culture|author=Kelly, Charles F.|work=www.t-net.ne.jp|access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref> ''Itoku'' is thus regarded by historians as a "legendary Emperor", and is considered to have been the third of [[Nihon Shoki#Kesshi Hachidai|eight Emperors without specific legends associated with them]].{{efn|Also known as the {{Nihongo|"eight undocumented monarchs"|欠史八代|''Kesshi-hachidai''}}.<ref name="aston">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_oEfAAAAYAAJ|title=Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 2|author=[[William George Aston|Aston, William George.]]|publisher=The Japan Society London|date=1896|pages=109, 142–143|isbn=9780524053478 }}</ref>}} The name Itoku''-tennō'' was assigned to him [[Posthumous name|posthumously]] by later generations, and literally means "benign virtue".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjapanes00kikugoog|title=''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the end of the Meiji Era''|author=[[Francis Brinkley|Brinkley, Frank]]|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica Company|year=1915|page=[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjapanes00kikugoog/page/n33 21]|quote=Posthumous names for the earthly ''Mikados'' were invented in the reign of Emperor Kanmu (782–805), i.e., after the date of the compilation of the ''Records'' and the ''Chronicles.''}}</ref> His name might have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Itoku, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the [[Imperial House of Japan|imperial dynasty]] were compiled as the chronicles known today as the ''[[Kojiki]]''.<ref name="aston"/> While the actual site of Itoku's [[grave (burial)|grave]] is not known, the Emperor is traditionally venerated at a [[memorial]] [[Shinto]] [[shrine]] (''misasagi'') in [[Kashihara, Nara|Kashihara]]. The [[Imperial Household Agency]] designates this location as Itoku's [[mausoleum]]. It is formally named ''Unebi-yama no hitsujisaru Mihodo no i no e no misasagi''.<ref name="Fane"/> The first emperor that historians state might have actually existed is [[Emperor Sujin]], the 10th emperor of Japan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/03/27/reference/life-in-the-cloudy-imperial-fishbowl/#.UhYzedK-2uI|title=Life in the Cloudy Imperial Fishbowl|newspaper=Japan Times|author=Yoshida, Reiji.|date=March 27, 2007|access-date=May 16, 2019}}</ref> Outside of the Kojiki, the reign of [[Emperor Kinmei]]{{efn|The 29th Emperor<ref name="Titsingh pp. 34-36">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon%20o%20dai%20itsi%20ran&pg=PA34|title=Nihon Ōdai Ichiran|author=[[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac.]]|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland|language=fr|year=1834|pages=34–36}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&pg=PA261|title=A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219|author=[[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida|publisher=University of California Press|year=1979|pages=261–262|isbn=9780520034600}}</ref>}} ({{circa|509}}&nbsp;– 571 AD) is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axRyAAAAMAAJ&q=According+to+legend%2C+the+first+Japanese+Emperor+was+Jimmu.+Along+with+the+next+13+Emperors%2C+Jimmu+is+not+considered+an+actual%2C+historical+figure.+Historically+verifiable+Emperors+of+Japan+date+from+the+early+sixth+century+with+Kimmei.|title=''Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds''|author=Hoye, Timothy.|publisher=Prentice Hall|year=1999|page=78|isbn=9780132712897|quote=According to legend, the first Japanese Emperor was Jimmu. Along with the next 13 Emperors, Jimmu is not considered an actual, historical figure. Historically verifiable Emperors of Japan date from the early sixth century with Kimmei.}}</ref> The conventionally accepted names and dates of the early Emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" though, until the reign of [[Emperor Kanmu]]{{efn|Kanmu was the 50th sovereign of the [[Imperial House of Japan|imperial dynasty]]}} between 737 and 806 AD.<ref name="aston"/>
==Family tree==
{{Generations of Jimmu}}


==Consort and children==
==Consort and children==
Empress: {{Nihongo|Amonotoyototsu-hime|天豊津媛命}}, Prince Okimi's daughter ([[Emperor Annei]]'s son)
*Empress: {{Nihongo|{{ill|Amonotoyototsu-hime|ja|天豊津媛命}}|天豊津媛命}}, Prince Okimi's daughter ([[Emperor Annei]]'s son)
*{{Nihongo|Prince Mimatsuhikokaeshine|観松彦香殖稲尊}}, later [[Emperor Kōshō]]
** {{Nihongo|Prince Mimatsuhikokaeshine|観松彦香殖稲尊}}, later [[Emperor Kōshō]]
*{{Nihongo|Prince Takeshihikokushitomose|武石彦奇友背命}}
** {{Nihongo|Prince Takeshihikokushitomose|武石彦奇友背命}}


==See also==
==See also==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* [[William George Aston|Aston, William George.]] (1896). [https://books.google.com/books?id=_oEfAAAAYAAJ&client=firefox-a ''Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697.''] London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/nihongi-chronicles-of-japan-from-the-earliest-times-to-ad-697/oclc/448337491&referer=brief_results OCLC 448337491]
* [[William George Aston|Aston, William George.]] (1896). [https://books.google.com/books?id=_oEfAAAAYAAJ ''Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697.''] London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/448337491 OCLC 448337491]
* [[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&dq=Gukansho&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/title/future-and-the-past-a-transl-and-study-of-the-gukansho-an-interpretative-history-of-japan-written-in-1219/oclc/251325323 OCLC 251325323]
* [[Delmer Brown|Brown, Delmer M.]] and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Gukansho ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/251325323 OCLC 251325323]
* [[Basil Hall Chamberlain|Chamberlain, Basil Hall]]. (1920). [http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/index.htm ''The Kojiki.''] Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882; reprinted, May, 1919. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/kojiki-records-of-ancient-matters/oclc/1882339?referer=br&ht=edition OCLC 1882339]
* [[Basil Hall Chamberlain|Chamberlain, Basil Hall]]. (1920). [http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/index.htm ''The Kojiki.''] Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882; reprinted, May, 1919. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1882339 OCLC 1882339]
* [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&client=firefox-a ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
* [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan&dq=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]
* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon''] (''[[Nihon Ōdai Ichiran]]''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/nipon-o-dai-itsi-ran-ou-annales-des-empereurs-du-japon/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon''] (''[[Nihon Ōdai Ichiran]]''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
* [[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul.]] (1980). [https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ&dq= ''Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns.''] New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-04940-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/title/chronicle-of-gods-and-sovereigns-jinno-shotoki-of-kitabatake-chikafusa/oclc/59145842 OCLC 59145842]
* [[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul.]] (1980). [https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ ''Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns.''] New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-04940-5}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59145842 OCLC 59145842]


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Emperor Itoku
懿徳天皇
Emperor of Japan
Reign510 BC – 477 BC (traditional)[1]
PredecessorAnnei
SuccessorKōshō
Born553 BC[2]
Died477 BC (aged 76)
Burial
Unebi-yama no minami no Manago no tani no e no misasagi (畝傍山南纖沙溪上陵) (Kashihara)
SpouseAmonotoyototsu-hime [ja]
Issue
Posthumous name
Chinese-style shigō:
Emperor Itoku (懿徳天皇)

Japanese-style shigō:
Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Sumeramikoto (大日本彦耜友天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Annei
MotherNunasoko-Nakatsu-hime
ReligionShinto

Emperor Itoku (懿徳天皇, Itoku-tennō), also known as Ōyamatohikosukitomo no Mikoto (大倭日子鉏友命) was the fourth legendary Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.[3][4] Very little is known about this emperor due to a lack of material available for further verification and study. Itoku is known as a "legendary emperor" among historians as his actual existence is disputed. Nothing exists in the Kojiki other than his name and genealogy. Itoku's reign allegedly began in 510 BC, he had one wife and two sons. After his death in 477 BC, his first son supposedly became the next emperor.

Legendary narrative

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In the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, only Itoku's name and genealogy were recorded. While the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, no extant contemporary records have been discovered that confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. Itoku is believed to be the son of Emperor Annei, and his mother is believed to have been Nunasokonakatsu-hime. The latter of the two is allegedly the granddaughter of Kotoshironushi.[5] The Kojiki records that Itoku was the second or third son of Emperor Annei, but the surviving documents provide no basis for speculating why the elder brother or brothers were passed over for the throne.[4][5] He is traditionally believed to have ruled from the palace of Migario-no-miya (軽之境岡宮, and in the Nihon Shoki as 軽曲峡宮) at Karu in what would come to be known as Yamato Province.[4] At some point he married a woman named Amonotoyototsu-hime [ja], and fathered two sons with her. Itoku's reign lasted from 510 BC until his death in 477 BC, his son then took the throne and would later be referred to as Emperor Kōshō.[6]

Known information

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Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Itoku.

The existence of at least the first nine Emperors is disputed due to insufficient material available for further verification and study.[7] Itoku is thus regarded by historians as a "legendary Emperor", and is considered to have been the third of eight Emperors without specific legends associated with them.[a] The name Itoku-tennō was assigned to him posthumously by later generations, and literally means "benign virtue".[9] His name might have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Itoku, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the imperial dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.[8] While the actual site of Itoku's grave is not known, the Emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) in Kashihara. The Imperial Household Agency designates this location as Itoku's mausoleum. It is formally named Unebi-yama no hitsujisaru Mihodo no i no e no misasagi.[6] The first emperor that historians state might have actually existed is Emperor Sujin, the 10th emperor of Japan.[10] Outside of the Kojiki, the reign of Emperor Kinmei[b] (c. 509 – 571 AD) is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates.[13] The conventionally accepted names and dates of the early Emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" though, until the reign of Emperor Kanmu[c] between 737 and 806 AD.[8]

Family tree

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Genealogy of early Japanese emperors and empresses
Nunakawahime[14] Ōkuninushi[15][16]: 278 
(Ōnamuchi)[17]		Kamotaketsunumi no Mikoto[18]
Kotoshironushi[19][20] Tamakushi-hime[18] Takeminakata[21][22] Susa Clan[23]
1 Jimmu[24]1Himetataraisuzu-hime[24]Kamo no Okimi[19][25]Mirahime [ja]
2 Suizei[26][27][28][29][30][31] 2Isuzuyori-hime[29][30][31][25][32]Kamuyaimimi[26][27][28]
3 Annei[33][19][29][30][31]〔Ō clan[34][35]〕〔Aso clan[36]〕3 Nunasokonakatsu-hime[37][19]Kamo clan
TakakurajiMiwa clan
4 Itoku[33][19]Ikisomimi no mikoto [ja][33]Ame no Murakumo [ja]
4Amatoyotsuhime no Mikoto [ja][33]Amaoshio no mikoto [ja]
5 Emperor Kōshō[33][19][38]5Yosotarashi-hime[19]Okitsu Yoso [ja]
6 Emperor Kōan[19]Prince Ameoshitarashi [ja][38]Owari clan
6Oshihime [ja][19][38]〔Wani clan〕[39]
7 Emperor Kōrei[40][19][38][41] 7Kuwashi-hime[41]
8 Emperor Kōgen[42][41]8Utsushikome [ja][42]Princess Yamato Totohi Momoso[40]Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto[43]Wakatakehiko [ja]
9Ikagashikome[d] [45][46]
Hikofutsuoshi no Makoto no Mikoto [ja][46]9 Emperor Kaika[42]Prince Ohiko [ja][47]〔Kibi clan〕
Yanushi Otake Ogokoro no Mikoto [ja][46]10 Emperor Sujin[48][49]10Mimaki-hime[50]〔Abe clan〕[47]
Takenouchi no Sukune[46]11 Emperor Suinin[51][52]11Saho-hime[53]12Hibasu-hime [ja][54]Yasaka Iribiko[55][56][57]Toyosukiiri-hime [ja][58]Nunaki-iri-hime [ja][40]
Yamatohime-no-mikoto[59]
〔Katsuragi clan〕13Harima no Inabi no Ōiratsume [ja]12 Emperor Keiko[52][54]14Yasakairi-hime [ja][55][56][57]
Otoyo no mikoto [ja]
Futaji Irihime [ja][60]Yamato Takeru[61][62]Miyazu-himeTakeinadane [ja] Ioki Iribiko13Emperor Seimu[61][62]
14Emperor Chūai[61][62] [63]15Empress Jingū[64] Homuda
Mawaka
15Emperor Ōjin[64]16Nakatsuhime[65][66][67]
16Emperor Nintoku[68]


Consort and children

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Also known as the "eight undocumented monarchs" (欠史八代, Kesshi-hachidai).[8]
  2. ^ The 29th Emperor[11][12]
  3. ^ Kanmu was the 50th sovereign of the imperial dynasty
  4. ^ There are two ways this name is transcribed: "Ika-gashiko-me" is used by Tsutomu Ujiya, while "Ika-shiko-me" is used by William George Aston.[44]

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Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom
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Further reading

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Regnal titles
Preceded by Legendary Emperor of Japan
510 BC – 477 BC
(traditional dates) 		Succeeded by
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