suinin

Updated: June 24, 2025

Suinin, like all the monarchs of that age, had many consorts: nine are catalogued in the Records and their offspring numbered sixteen, many of whom received local titles and had estates conferred in the provinces. In fact, this process of ramifying the Imperial family went on continuously from reign to reign. There are in the story of this sovereign some very pathetic elements.

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