Editing Emperor Yūryaku (section)

===Reign===
According to the ''Kiki'', Emperor Yūryaku's reign was full of tyranny and cruelty. He allegedly ordered a girl to "have her four limbs stretched on a tree and be roasted to death" due to misplaced affection. Another account states that he killed one of his servants during a hunt because his servant did not understand how to cut up animal meat. Yūryaku also allegedly removed a high official to a distant post so he could help himself to the man's wife.<ref name="Brinkley">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOJxAAAAMAAJ&q=Y%C5%ABryaku|title=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era|chapter=Chapter XII: The Protohistoric Sovereigns|author=[[Francis Brinkley]]|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|year=1915|pages=112–116}}</ref> The Emperor arbitrary and capriciously killed so many men and women that he was referred to as '''Emperor of Great Wickedness''' by the public.<ref name="Fane1"/><ref name="Brinkley"/> However, it is noted that Yūryaku improved his behavior after being admonished by the empress.<ref name="NIJL2024">{{cite web|url=https://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/onlinejournal/sjlc/images/sjlc07_tojima.pdf|title=Congenital Anomalies in Ancient Japan as Deciphered in the Nihon shoki (Chronicles of Japan)|author1=Tojima Sayaka|author2=Yamada Shigehito|publisher=National Institute of Japanese Literature|year=2024|page=34 & 40–41}}</ref> On a more positive side, Yūryaku greatly encouraged agriculture during his reign and had his consort plant mulberry trees and cultivate silkworms.<ref name="Fane1"/><ref name="Brinkley"/> The Emperor was also known as a poet, and someone who enjoyed arts and crafts as expert handicraftsmen were commissioned from [[Baekje]] (Korea).<ref name="Brinkley"/><ref name="EYPoet">Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai (1969). ''The Manyōshū,'' p. 317.</ref> While the Empress herself never bore Yūryaku any children, he had three sons and two daughters with his concubines.<ref name="Fane1"/><ref name="Aston1"/>

In the 22nd year of his reign (477 AD) Yūryaku moved a shrine dedicated to [[Toyouke-hime]] from [[Tanba Province|Tanba]] to [[Ise Province|Ise]] (modern day [[Ise, Mie]]).<ref name="Fane1"/>{{efn|British academic and author [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane]] notes that "his majesty caused the temple of Toyoukeohokami to be moved from Tanba to Yamada in Ise." Originally the village around the Inner Shrine was named Uji, and the village around the Outer Shrine was named Yamada. These two villages were [[Ise, Mie#History|later merged]] during the [[Meiji era]].}} This newly founded shrine named {{nihongo||外宮|''Gekū''}} is now a part of the [[Ise Shrine]] complex. According to "{{Nihongo|2=止由気宮儀式帳|3=Toyukegū gishikichō|1=Toyuke Shrine Book of Rituals}}" (written in 884 AD), the goddess Toyouke originally came from Tamba.<ref>{{cite book|title=Yaoyorozu no kamigami : Nihon no shinreitachi no purofiru|last=Tobe|first= Tamio|author-link=:ja:戸部民夫|publisher=[[:ja:新紀元社|Shinkigensha]]|series=Truth in fantasy (Tokyo, Japan), 31|year=1997|pages=91, 109–111|language=ja|trans-title=Eight million gods and goddesses in Japan : their profiles as divine spirits in Japan}}</ref> It records that Emperor Yūryaku was told by [[Amaterasu]] in his dream that she alone was not able to supply enough food, so that Yūryaku needed to bring {{Nihongo|2=等由気大神|3=Toyuke-no-Ōkami}}, or the goddess of divine meals, from Hijino Manai in ancient [[Tanba Province]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Nihon no kamigami no jiten : Shinto saishi to yaoyorozu no kamigami|last1=Sonoda |first1=Minoru|author-link=:ja:薗田稔|last2=Mogi |first2=Sakae|publisher=[[:ja:学研ホールディングス|Gakken]]|series= Books esoterica, 2.; New sight mook|language=ja|pages=68, 69|year=1997|oclc=42978057|isbn=9784056016291}}</ref>

Yūryaku appointed his son {{Nihongo|Prince Shiraka|白髪皇子}} as heir apparent in 478 AD before dying in the following year.<ref name="Aston1"/> The ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'' mentions that Yūryaku lived to be 104, while the [[Kojiki]] gives his age as 124.<ref name="Brown"/><ref name="Kojikiage"/> His son Shiraka was later enthroned as [[Emperor Seinei]] in 480 AD.