Аннотация:Many post-war Japanese historians considered Empress Jingū, the mother and regent to Emperor k jin of the early fifth century, a mythical figure and treated the accounts of her life in Kojiki , Nihon shoki and Fudoki as the product of fabrication that mirrored the lives of empresses from later centuries. Their theories, however, were not only flawed but failed to address the extraordinary emphasis given to her achievement in the chronicles. The story of Jingū can reveal important political aspects of the formative Yamato polity because its basis, i.e. her seizure of power and expedition to Korea, developed very early and were recorded by the sixth century. A careful examination of the story confirms the importance of shamaness-priestess rulers in the fourth century, a point which some historians and archaeologists have long suspected. Jingū is representative of a series of women who served as principal rulers in 'pair rule' and were known by the quasi-title Princess Oho tarashi. Her expedition to the kingdom of Silla suggests that these women played an important role in ushering in the age of intensive interactions with the Korean states. The story also indicates a gradual shift of power from female rulers to male rulers due to the latter's control of military affairs.
