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Emperor Jinmu (2)


(Continued from Emperor Jinmu (1) )
Geographically, there are three routes from Miyazaki to Yamato (currently Nara prefecture); 1.to go to North Kyushu (Kitakyushu) and take a route in land like the current bullet train's route from Kyushu to Osaka, 2. to take a ship and go to Pacific Ocean in south and detour along the current Shikoku Island to Kii promontory[1], 3. to take a ship in Seto-Naikai (Inland Sea; straits between San-in area and Shikoku Island.
Kyushu itself is an island as one component of Japan's archipelago so there is small straits between the main land and Kyushu Island. Currently we have a bridge called Kan-mon Bridge (関門橋）and we can take the option 1 to go to Osaka but there was not the bridge about 2,700 years ago. Namely, this option was not realistic to the Prince and his party.
Brinkley has a detail about boat techniques at that time. He argues that the boats were simply hollow trunks of trees [2]and they were propelled by oars, not sails[3]. With this scarce technology, Prince Iware chose Option 3: to go to the Inland Sea by a ship. Brinkley argues the decision was correct because nautical knowledge and sea going vessels were alike wanting at that time[4].
Price Iware voyaged from Mimitsu in Miyazaki[5] and headed firstly to Usa( Prounced woo-sa, not the United States of America, seriously), Oita Prefecture. In Usa, a local couple called Usatsu-hiko (husband) and Usatsu-hime (wife) built a plain hut for the Prince and gave him some foods during his stay[6][7].  Then he headed to Okada-miya in the north in Kyushu and spent one year by exercising some ritual prayers. He went into the Inland Sea and  dropped in Hiroshima (Takeri-no miya: Takeri palace) for seven years and in Okayama for eight years(Takashima-no miya: Takashima palace) [8].
After Okayama, he saw a local man fishing on a turtle's back in the ocean[9]. The prince asked the man who he was and the man answered he was one of  the local deities. Then the Prince asked the man whether or not  he knew the ocean route well and the man's answer was yes. Finally, The Prince asked the man to join him and the man said yes. In this way, the man was invited into their ship as a new member and the man was given a stick to propel the ship (like oars) and a name “Sao Netsu Hiko”[10].

[1]    Brinkley (2008). Loc.cit.
[2]    Ibid.
[3]    Ibid.
[4]    Ibid.
[5]    Miyazaki Tourist Association (2012). Mythology of Miyazaki City (Official Pamphlet for tourism). P21-22
[6]    Ibid
[7]    Commemorating the couple's help to the Prince, there is a shrine called Usaso Jinja Shrine as one of small shrines attached to Usa Jingu Shrine. (Association of Shinto Shrines (2012). Loc.cit.  P196)
[8]    Association of Shinto Shrines (2012). Loc.cit.  P195
[9]    Ibid.
[10]  Ibid.
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