The battles were intense; she let her navy and army declare that BreathLong had died.
Her soldiers cut their bowstrings, then her enemy cut theirs. But her soldiers took new strings out of hair. The queen conquered all the plotters on the way to the capital.
-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, a statue of a man in the 6th century, folded tresses besides ears, Kyoto National Museum-
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