Prince Hayabusawake and Princess Metori

Japanese: 隼総別皇子･雌鳥皇女 - はやぶさわけのみこめとりのひめみこ

She is the younger half-sister of Emperor Nintoku, who appears in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. The emperor proposed to Princess Metori with Prince Hayabusawake as a matchmaker, but the princess had an affair with Hayabusawake and encouraged him to overthrow Nintoku, so the two were chased by the army and killed at Soni in Uda (in the Nihon Shoki, at Komoshirono in Ise). Emperor Nintoku was also called Osazaki, and all the characters' names are related to birds. It is an outstanding story, written mainly in the form of short songs. The princess in the Kojiki is different from that in the Nihon Shoki, in that she protests to Emperor Nintoku over the treatment of her sister Yatanowakiiratsume, and is portrayed as a woman who lives an ambitious life.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

記紀にみえる仁徳天皇の庶弟妹。天皇は隼総別皇子を仲人として，雌鳥皇女に求婚したが，皇女はハヤブサワケと通じ，仁徳をたおすことをそそのかしたために二人は軍勢に追われて宇陀の曾尓（そに）(紀では伊勢の蔣代野（こもしろのの）)で殺害された。仁徳天皇は名を大鷦鷯（おおさざき）ともいい，登場する人物の名がすべて鳥に関連すること，表現形式が短い歌謡群を中心につづられた物語として出色であること，《古事記》における皇女は《日本書紀》のそれとは異なり，姉である八田若郎女（やたのわきいらつめ）の待遇をめぐって仁徳天皇に抗議し，意欲的に生きる女性として描かれていること，の3点をこの話の特色としてあげることができる。

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