she gave birth to a son. As she had set ninjas to the capital, Nara, before the war, she got word of plots there from a ninja even as she was nursing her infant.
-Isolated Connected Kyushu Island, page 251-
-English translation from Kojiki=古事記, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712)-
-Photo from http://www.ikishi.sakura.ne.jp/ikizingukougou.html BreathLong, 息長足姫=神功皇后-
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