take-be

Updated: April 30, 2025

These Take-be gave their names to the districts where they lived, in Ise, Izumo, Mimasaka, and Bizen. Another custom inaugurated by this sovereign was to require that the rulers of provinces should send to the Yamato Court female hostages. The first example of this practice took place on the occasion of an Imperial visit to the regions overrun by Yamato-dake's forces.

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