amatsu

Updated: May 19, 2025

The Kume were descended from Amatsu Kume no Mikoto, and their duties were to act as chamberlains and as guards of the Court. Finally, there was the Oga-uji, descended from Okuninushi, which makes the eighth of the great uji. Thus, the military uji of Mononobe and Otomo gave to the State twenty-two ministers out of forty during a space of some twelve centuries.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era