Empress Jingū
Jingū (Japanese神功 皇后, Jingū - Kogo; * ~ 169, † 269) was a legendary wife of Chuai - tennō and after the death of her husband 201 until the accession of her son ojin - tennō in 269 Regent and the myths according to de facto ruler of Japan.
According to legend, she led an invading army to Korea and returned after three years victoriously back to Japan. Her son ojin was born after their return.
The Legend of Jingūs invasion of the Korean peninsula is based on the traditional Japanese interpretation of the Gwanggaeto stele that was found in Manchuria. This declared the supremacy of Goguryeo over Manchuria and the northern part of Korea. Further investigation showed that this interpretation was based on conjecture, since several important letters of the text missing. In addition, the correlations fit more together with Goguryeo direct southern neighbors, Silla and Paekche. Paekche had very close relations with Japan, including an exchange between the courts and was one of the main ways to transfer the continental culture to Japan.
Most modern historians, the Japanese, the legend of Jingū reject. The story of their reign might have been invented to explain the interregnum from 200 to 270, which is mentioned in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in.
After Arai Hakuseki Jingū is identical to the equally legendary Queen Himiko, as the authors of Nihon Shoki had to consider the latter as a historical figure as belonging to the imperial family. Recent research, however, now close out an identity of Jingū with Himiko. Himiko has scientific evidence indicates that lived at least 120 years before Jingū provided Jingū has ever been a historical person.
1881 Jingū was the first woman on a Japanese banknote.
Shinto
Jingū - Kogo said to have built several shrines, including 199 in the Kashii - gū ( Kashii, Fukuoka ) is worshiped in the Chuai - tennō. After returning from Korea, they should have then established a number of shrines in the Kobe - Osaka region, including the Ikuta Shrine in the year 210, the Nagata Shrine in Kobe, the Hirota Shrine in Nishinomiya and the Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka. In addition, it is attributed to the founder of the shaft Mekari shrine in the district Moji -ku the city of Kitakyushu.
Jingū is worshiped as kami in several shrines and doing mostly associated with her son, so in Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka, in Togi - Hachiman-gu in Shika (formerly Togi -machi, Ishikawa Prefecture), in Kameyama Shrine in Kure, in Himure - Hachiman-gu in Ōmi - hachiman ( Shiga Prefecture ), in Shinzen -chō Hachiman- gū in Nagahama ( Shiga Prefecture ) and in the Shikawa -mura Hachiman- gū ( Shimane Prefecture ). As Kami it bears the name Okinaga - tarashi -hime (no mikoto ), with three spellings for this name are in use :気 长足 姫 尊,息 长 帯 比 売 命and大 帯 比 売 命.
Furthermore, it is ( alleged to have either their brothers or vassals) venerated in the Shrine Miyachitake together with the two Katsuma Kami -no- kami - ō and ō Katsuyori -no- kami. In Itate - Hyozu shrine of the kami Itate - no-kami is worshiped, is said to have defended the bow of their ship.