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  2. Emperor Jimmu - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇, Jinmu-tennō) was the legendary first emperor of Japan according to the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki. [2] His ascension is traditionally dated as 660 BC. [6] [7] In Japanese mythology, he was a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, through her grandson Ninigi, as well as a descendant of the storm god Susanoo.

  3. Ahiratsu-hime - Wikipedia

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    Ahiratsu-hime was the first wife of Emperor Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan. Jimmu later married Himetataraisuzu-hime who became the first Empress of Japan , and whose children inherited the throne. Her son Tagishimimi would attempt to seize power violently due to not inheriting the throne.

  4. Jimmu's Eastern Expedition - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Jinmu on the cover of the first national census, 1920.. Jimmu's Eastern Expedition (神武東征, Jinmu tōsei) refers to a series of legends in which Emperor Jimmu became the first emperor of Japan, after defeating Nagasunehiko, who had ruled the Nara Basin and its surrounding area, after leaving Hyuga Province. [1]

  5. Imperial House of Japan - Wikipedia

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    [note 1] [23] [24] Emperor Shōwa's personal fortune was an additional hundreds of millions of yen (estimated over $6 billion as of 2017). It included numerous family heirlooms and furnishings, purebred livestock and investments in major Japanese firms, such as the Bank of Japan , other major Japanese banks, the Imperial Hotel and Nippon Yusen .

  6. Ugayafukiaezu - Wikipedia

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    Later, when Ugayafukiaezu reached adulthood, he married his aunt, Tamayori-hime, and they had four children: Hikoitsuse, Inai, Mikeirinu, and Hikohohodemi (later Emperor Jimmu). [1] Mikeirinu traveled to Tokoyo no kuni, the "Everworld", and Inai went into the ocean to be with his mother. The eldest and youngest set forth to rule the land and ...

  7. List of emperors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Personal name Posthumous name Reign and era names [8] [9] [i] Life details 1: Hikohohodemi 彦火火出見: Emperor Jimmu

  8. Kashihara Shrine - Wikipedia

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    The Mausoleum of Emperor Jimmu is found on the shrine's premises. Several memorials to placate Japanese military personnel fallen in World War II are placed on the shrine's grounds, including one dedicated to the personnel of the aircraft carrier Zuikaku which was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.

  9. Tamayori-hime (mother of Jimmu) - Wikipedia

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    She is the mother of Emperor Jimmu (the first Emperor) and the sister of Toyotama-hime, the Emperor's grandmother.Toshio Akima of the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies considers it more likely that Tamayori-hime is not the sister of Toyotama-hime, but that the two should be considered as aspects of the same, single deity.