Ninigi married Konohanasakuya-hime after his heavenly descent. She proved their sons' divine paternity by giving birth in a burning hut. Their children — Hoderi (Fire-Shine), Hosuseri, and Hoori (Fire-Fade) — continued the imperial lineage.
Hoori married the dragon princess Toyotama-hime at the sea palace. She gave birth to Ugayafukiaezu but fled back to the sea after Hoori broke his promise not to watch the birth.
Hoori and Hoderi quarreled after Hoori lost his brother's irreplaceable fishhook in the sea. Despite offering hundreds of replacements, Hoderi refused them all, driving Hoori to despair and eventually to the sea palace to recover the hook.
The Hayato people descend from Hoderi, whom Hoori subjugated with the Tide Jewels. In the Kojiki, their ritual dog-barking dance before the emperor reenacts Hoderi's drowning submission, establishing Hoori's line as the Hayato's perpetual overlords.
After nearly drowning Hoderi three times with the tide jewels, Hoori forced his elder brother to swear eternal fealty and serve as his guardian in sea and shore.
Ryūjin lent Hoori the Tide Jewels — Shiomitsutama to raise the sea and Shiohirutama to draw it back — and Hoori used them to drown and then rescue his brother Hoderi, forcing his eternal submission.
Ōyamatsumi's curse upon the imperial line — spoken when Ninigi rejected his daughter Iwanagahime — decreed that Hoori and all descendants would have mortal lifespans rather than the eternal endurance of stone. The curse directly shaped Hoori's fate.
Hoori lived at Ryūgū-jō for three years as Ryujin's honored guest. At the Dragon Palace he married Toyotama-hime, recovered Hoderi's fishhook, and received the magical Tide Jewels before returning to the surface world.
Hoori visited Ryujin's undersea palace Ryūgū-jō to recover his brother Hoderi's lost fishhook. Ryujin received him as a guest, found the hook, gave him the tide jewels, and offered his daughter Toyotama-hime in marriage.
Shiotsuchi-no-Oji found Hoori weeping on the shore after losing the fishhook and counseled him on how to reach Ryūgū-jō. The salt-tide elder built a small woven boat and set Hoori on his path to the sea god's palace.
Hoori's tomb is placed on the peak of Takachiho in Hyūga Province, where his father Ninigi had descended from heaven. The mountain marks both the divine origin and the final resting place of the imperial ancestor line.
Hoori swore never to watch Toyotama-hime give birth, but peered through a gap in the cormorant-feather birth hut and saw her true form — a great wani thrashing on the floor. Shamed and furious, she abandoned her newborn son and fled back beneath the waves, sealing the sea-path behind her forever.
A great wani carried Hoori from Ryūgū-jō back to the surface world after his three-year sojourn. The wani served as the boundary-crossing mount between the eternal sea realm and the mortal land, ferrying the divine prince home.
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