Jimmu, Emperor, Japan, Mythology

Jimmu, legendary first emperor of Japan and founder of the imperial dynasty. Japanese chronicles record Jimmu’s expedition eastward from Hyuga in 607 bc along Japan’s Inland Sea, subduing tribes as he went and ending in Yamato, where he established his centre of power. Although modern historians do

Historians highly debated the existence of the first Japanese emperor, Emperor Jimmu, a descendent from the sun god Amaterasu. Personally I think they just aren't willing to acknowledge this alpha male.

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