2018 Volume 67 Issue 1 Pages 2-12
In Kojiki and Nihon-shoki Emperor Sujin is called with profound reverence “Hatsukunishirasu-sumera-mikoto” or the first governor of the country. There he is credited with the establishment of rituals for the worship of Ōmononushi-no-kami, the unification of provinces, and the gendered taxation system with wild game as male tax and cloth as female tax. But there is an obvious difference in the way of describing his career between those ancient texts. It can be attributed to social factors which subtly affected the writing of Nihon-shoki.
