nie-no-sukune

Updated: May 27, 2025

When Prince Kuro perished, Nie-no-Sukune took the corpse in his arms and was burned with it. When Prince Ichinobe no Oshiwa fell under the treacherous arrow of Prince Ohatsuse, one of the former's servants embraced the dead body and fell into such a paroxysm of grief that Ohatsuse ordered him to be despatched.

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