Izumo Takeru - Izumo Takeru

Japanese: 出雲建 - いずもたける

A chieftain of Izumo who appears in a series of stories about Yamato Takeru no Mikoto (Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, Yamato Takeru no Mikoto in the Nihon Shoki) in the Kojiki. On his way back to the capital from a western expedition, he fell victim to a scheme by Yamato Takeru, and was forced to fight Yamato Takeru, who had a real sword, with a fake sword (a wooden sword), and met a tragic end. Of the major regions mentioned in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the only ones with chieftains called Takeru were Kyushu (Kumaso) and Izumo, and both were destroyed by Yamato Takeru, which shows that at a certain point in the formation of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki tales, Izumo, along with Kyushu, was considered an area that the Yamato court had to conquer. This is probably in line with the fact that the myth of the transfer of the country in the Age of the Gods was conceived with Izumo as the setting. <References> Yamato Takeru by Yoshii Iwao

(Noritaka Kanda)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

『古事記』の倭建命(ヤマトタケルノミコト,『日本書紀』では日本武尊)の一連の話の中にみえる出雲の首長。西征から都へ戻る途次のヤマトタケルの策謀にあい,真剣を持つヤマトタケルと贋物の剣(木刀)で戦うはめになり,あえない最期を遂げる。記紀にみえる主要な地域でタケルと称される首長のいるのは,九州(熊襲)と出雲だけで,共にヤマトタケルに滅ぼされており,記紀の説話形成のある時期に,大和朝廷にとって九州と並んで出雲が征服しなければならない地域と考えられていたことがわかる。これは神代の国譲り神話が出雲を舞台として構想されていることと共通したものであろう。<参考文献>吉井巌『ヤマトタケル』

(神田典城)

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