Appendix: Appendix II. Chronology of Sovereigns Mentioned in the Kojiki and Nihongi

p. A28 [368] APPENDIX II. THE HITHERTO ACCEPTED CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY JAPANESE SOVEREIGNS MENTIONED IN THE "RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS" ("KO-JI-KI") AND IN THE "CHRONICLES OF JAPAN" ("NI-HONGI" ). [This "Accepted Chronology "is contained in the first three columns of figures, whereof the first two, giving the corresponding dates according to the European reckoning are transcribed from some Comparative Chronological Tables by Mr. Ernest Satow, printed for private distribution in 1874. The ages of the monarchs in the third column are from "The Digest of the Imperial Pedigree," a work published by the Imperial Japanese Government is 1877, and therefore carrying with it the weight of authority. It might perhaps be too much to say that even its decisions are universally bowed to by the native literati, but the differences between various writers are all slight, and excepting on points that affect only a very few years, the chronology contained in the first three columns may justly be styled the "Accepted Chronology" both as far as natives and as far as foreigners are concerned. It will be seen that it is founded in the main on the statements contained in the "Chronicles of Japan," though sometimes differing therefrom as well as from the "Records." The fourth column contains the ages of the monarchs according to the "Records" and the fifth their ages according to the "Chronicles." The portion printed in italics, and including a little over a thousand years, is that which has been shown in Section V of the Translator's Introduction to be undeserving of credence.

Accession. Death. Age. Age accord. to "Records." Age accord. to "Chronicles." Jin-mu 660 (B.C.) 585(B.C.) 127 137 127 Sui-zei 581 549 84 45 80 An-nei 548 511 57 49 57 I-toku 510 477 77 45 77 Kō-shō 475 393 114 93 113 p. A29 Kō-an 392 291 137 123 reigned 102 years Kō-rei 290 215 128 106 " 76 " Kō-gen 214 158 116 57 " 57 " Kai-kuwa 157 98 111 63 " 60 " Su-jin 97 30 119 168 120 Sui-nin 29 70 (A.D.) 141 153 140 Kei-ko 71 (A.D.) 130 143 137 106 Sei-mu 131 190 108 95 107 Chiū-ai 192 200 52 52 52 Jin-gō 201 269 100 100 100 Ō-jin 270 310 111 130 110 Nin-toku 313 399 110 83 reigned 87 years Ri-chiū 400 405 67 64 70 Han-zei 406 411 60 60 reigned 6 years In-giyō 412 453 80 78 " 42 " An-kō 454 456 56 66 " 3 " Yū-riyaku 457 479 age omitted 124 " 5 " Sei-nei 480 484 41 not given " 23 " Ken-zō 485 487 age omitted 38 " 3 " Nin-ken 488 498 50 not given " 11 " Mu-retsu 499 506 8 1 reigned 8 years " 8 " Kei-tai 507 531 82 43 82 An-kan 534 535 70 not given 70 Sen-kuwa 536 539 73 " 73 Kim-mei 540 571 63 " reigned 32 years Bi-datsu 572 585 48 reigned 14 years " 14 " Yō-mei 586 587 69 " 3 " " 2 " Su-jun 588 592 73 " 4 " " 5 " Sui-ko 593 628 75 " 37 " " 75 " A29:1 The reign of this Empress is in the "Records" not counted separately, but included in that of her son Ō-jin. For the mention of her age in the "Records "conf. Sect. CIII, Note 4.