nihongi's

Updated: May 21, 2025

The delusive nature of the Nihongi's chronology in these prehistoric epochs is exemplified in the annals of this sovereign, for he is represented as having been in his eighty-third year when he ascended the throne, yet, in the third year of his reign, he took a consort who bore him thirteen children, and altogether his progeny numbered eighty sons and daughters by seven wives.

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