Emperor Chūai and Empress Jingū conceived Ōjin before Chūai's sudden death. Jingū pressed magical stones against her womb to delay the birth while she led the invasion of the Korean kingdoms, and Ōjin was born in Tsukushi upon her triumphant return.
Yamato Takeru took Futaji-iri-hime as his consort, and she bore him Tarashi-Nakatsu-Hiko, who would reign as Emperor Chūai, the fourteenth sovereign of Japan.
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