The New International Encyclopædia/Jimmu Tennō

​Jim′mu Ten′nō (Sinico-Japanese, ‘Jimmu the Emperor’). The first ruler of Japan, and the reputed founder of the line of mikados that has continued to the present time. Mutsu-hito, the Mikado now on the throne, being the hundred and twenty-first, or, according to some, the hundred and twenty-third. He was said to have been a descendant in the fifth degree of Ten-sho Dai-jin, or Amaterasu, the sun-goddess. His reign is said to have begun in the year B.C. 660, and to have ended in B.C. 581, after having conquered all his enemies in the south and west, and established his throne in Yamato, the region in which the city of Kioto is now situated. There he married a lady named Hime-tatara-isuzu-hime-no-mikoto, daughter of one of the rulers of the country. He is said to have died at the age of 137. His burial-place is situated on an isolated hill on the northeast side of Mount Unebi, in Yamato. His anniversary is February 11th, when salutes are fired in his honor. The era of Jimmu Tenno is that from which the Japanese reckon. If he ever existed, he was probably one of the early—or perhaps the earliest—invaders of Japan, entering the country from the southwest.

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