Editing Emperor Jimmu (section)

==Name and title==
Jimmu is recorded as Japan's first ruler in two early chronicles, {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Nihon Shoki]]}} (721) and {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Kojiki]]}} (712).<ref name="KodanshaJimmu" /> {{Lang|ja-latn|Nihon Shoki}} gives the dates of his reign as 660–585 BC.<ref name="KodanshaJimmu" /> In the reign of [[Emperor Kanmu]] (737–806),{{sfn|Aston|1896|pp=109–137}} the eighth-century scholar [[Ōmi no Mifune]] retroactively designated rulers before [[Emperor Ōjin]] as {{nihongo||天皇|''tennō''|extra="heavenly sovereign"}}, a Japanese pendant to the Chinese imperial title ''Tiān-dì'' (天帝), and gave several of them including Jimmu their [[posthumous names]]. Prior to this time, these rulers had been known as ''Sumera no mikoto''/''Ōkimi''. This practice had begun under [[Empress Suiko]], and took root after the [[Taika Reforms]] with the ascendancy of the [[Nakatomi clan]].<ref>Jacques H. Kamstra [https://books.google.com/books?id=NRsVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA66 ''Encounter Or Syncretism: The Initial Growth of Japanese Buddhism,''] Brill 1967 pp. 65–67.</ref>

Both the {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Kojiki]]}} and the {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Nihon Shoki]]}} give Jimmu's name as {{Nihongo||神倭伊波礼琵古命|'''Kamu-yamato Iware-biko no Mikoto'''}} or {{Nihongo||神日本磐余彦天皇|'''Kamu-yamato Iware-biko no Sumeramikoto'''}}.<ref>神倭伊波礼琵古命, [[Old Japanese|OJ]] pronunciation: ''Kamu-Yamatö-ipare-biko'' (''nö-mikötö'') Donald Philippi, tr. ''Kojiki'', University of Tokyo Press, 1969 p. 488</ref> ''Iware'' indicates a [[toponym]] (an old place name in the Nara region) whose precise purport is unclear.<ref>Japanese Wikipedia [[:ja:磐余|''Iware'']]</ref> '-no-Mikoto' is an honorific, indicating divinity, nobility, or royalty.

Among his other names were: {{Nihongo||若御毛沼命|Wakamikenu no Mikoto}}, {{Nihongo||神日本磐余彦火火出見尊|Kamu-yamato Iware-biko hohodemi no Mikoto}} and {{Nihongo||彦火火出見|Hikohohodemi}}.

The [[Imperial House of Japan]] traditionally based its claim to the throne on its putative descent from the sun-goddess [[Amaterasu]] via Jimmu's great-grandfather [[Ninigi-no-Mikoto|Ninigi]].<ref>Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, [''Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini's Ryūshi Shinron of 1759''], University of Hawai'i Press, 1995 pp. 106–107.</ref>