awo

Updated: May 5, 2025

This dispute of mutual deference continued for a whole year, during a part of which time the administration was carried on by Princess Awo, elder sister of Woke. At length the latter yielded and assumed the sceptre. His first care was to collect the bones of his father, Prince Oshiwa, who had been murdered and buried unceremoniously on the moor of Kaya in Omi province.

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