Itsuse’s Family Tree

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Family

• Tamayori-hime(parent),Ugayafukiaezu(parent),Emperor Jimmu(sibling),Inahi(sibling),Mikenu(sibling)— Marriage

  Ugayafukiaezu and Tamayori-hime had four sons: Itsuse, Inahi, Mikenu, and their youngest Kamuyamato-Iwarebiko, who would become Emperor Jimmu. Itsuse fell in battle during the eastern expedition, Inahi departed for the sea plain, and Mikenu trod the waves to the eternal land, leaving Jimmu alone to conquer Yamato.

Slain by

• Nagasunehiko

  Nagasunehiko's arrow struck Itsuse during the first battle of Emperor Jimmu's eastern expedition at Naniwa. The wound proved fatal, and Itsuse died at the sea of Chinu, cursing that he, a child of the sun, had been defeated by fighting facing the sun.

Associated with

• Emperor Jimmu,Nagasunehiko

  During the eastern expedition, Nagasunehiko's arrow struck Itsuse, wounding him fatally. Emperor Jimmu's eldest brother declared they had erred by fighting eastward against the sun and urged the army to circle south, dying from his wound at the sea of Chinu.