Who Is Homudawake (future Emperor Ojin) (Emperor Ojin)?
The prince proclaimed king before he was born
Homudawake-no-Mikoto
Emperor Ojin is the figure the Kojiki names as the fifteenth emperor of Japan; his name was Homudawake. He was the son of Emperor Chuai and Empress Jingu.
While still in his mother's womb, a god declared that he was "the child who will rule this land." He was born at Umi in Tsukushi after his mother crossed the sea. On the way back to Yamato, his mother's ruse placed him on a funeral ship, pretending he had died, and so he came safely through Prince Oshikuma's rebellion. Later, at Tsunuga, he exchanged names with the Great God Izasawake, and the next morning the beach was filled with dolphins offered to him. When he returned to the capital, his mother welcomed him with sake she had brewed for his homecoming.
Emperor Ojin is said to have later come to be worshipped as the god Hachiman. The god of Tsunuga is the god of Kehi Shrine in present-day Tsuruga.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 14
The Music Stopped, and the King Was DeadEmpress Jingū's Expedition to Silla
Kojiki series, Episode 14. A king who doubted the gods' words dies in the middle of playing his koto. "That voice came out of my mouth." Carrying both her guilt and her unborn child, the empress asks the gods again herself. Then she sets out to sea, trusting the fish to carry her fleet across the rough waves. *Based on myths written down some 1,300 years ago, not on historical fact.
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NEWEpisode 15
WaitEveryone Thinks I'm Dead? — The Revolt of Prince Oshikuma
A mother spreads the rumor that her son is dead, then sails for the capital with the prince and her soldiers hidden aboard a funeral ship. A battle with his scheming half-brothers, a stunning reversal thanks to a bowstring hidden in General Topknot's hair, a lord and his loyal retainer vanishing into a lake, and a strange gift from the god of the northern shore—until the child everyone thought dead returns to his mother, and one day becomes king.
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