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.
Emperor Ōjin, the fifteenth sovereign of Japan, lives on as Hachiman — his spirit first proclaimed a mighty kami by the oracle of Usa Hachimangū in the eighth century, transforming a mortal emperor into the divine protector of warriors and the nation itself.
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