Nunasokonakatsu-hime (渟名底仲媛命) was the legendary empress consort of Japan from 546 to 510 BCand Anston, p. 1.42 (Vol. 1) and then empress dowager from 510 BC according to traditional dates.

Life

There exact number of her children differs between the ''

Kojiki The , also sometimes read as or , is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the , and the Japanese imperia ...

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Nihon Shoki The or , sometimes translated as ''The Chronicles of Japan'', is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history. It is more elaborate and detailed than the , the oldest, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeol ...

''. In the ''Kojiki'' she and her husband have 3, Tokotsuhikoirone,

Emperor Itoku , also known as was the fourth legendary Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Very little is known about this emperor due to a lack of material available for further verification and study. Itoku is known as a "le ...

, and Shikitsuhiko.Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press. Yet in the ''Nihon Shoki'' they have another, Ikisomimi.W. G. ASTON, C.M.G. (1896) “Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697”. Tuttle Publishing. only the ''Kojiki'' states her father as Kamo no Okimi. The Empress's life is not recorded in the ''Kojiki'' or ''Nihon Shoki'' but for her family and titles.

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