50. He Slays the Boar-herd

1The Heavenly Sovereign searched for the old boar-herd who had seized his august provisions at the time when he first met with adversity and was fleeing; and, having sought him out, sent for him up [to the Capital], beheaded him in the bed of the River Asuka, and cut the knee-tendons of all his kindred. Wherefore down to the present time his descendants, on the day when they come up to Yamato, always limp of their own accord. So the man’s abode had been well seen and divined. So the place was named Shimesu.