Princess Yamato Totohi Momoso (倭迹迹日百襲姫命, Yamatototohimomoso-hime) is a Japanese princess buried in Hashihaka Kofun.[1] She was the daughter of Emperor Kōrei.[2] She was the shaman aunt of Emperor Sujin, and is said to have taken her own life after discovering her husband was a snake god.[3]
The Hashihaka kofun is considered to be the first large keyhole-shaped kofun constructed in Japan and is associated with the emergence of the Yamato Kingship.[2]
The Imperial Household Agency designates the Hashihaka kofun as the tomb of Princess Yamato Totohi Momoso, the daughter of the legendary Emperor Kōrei. There is also a scholarly theory that the Hashihaka kofun is the tomb of Himiko, the queen of Yamatai.[4]
The name Hashihaka translates as "chopstick grave" and refers to a mythical love affair between Princess Yamato Totohi Momoso and the kami of sacred Mount Miwa, which ended with the princess stabbing herself to death with a chopstick.[5][6]
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- ^ Aston, W.G. (1972). Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Tuttle Publishing. pp. 158–159. ISBN 0804836744.