Prince Yamato Take at once offered to go and bring the newly
arisen rebels into subjection. Now as the King loved the Prince
dearly, and could not bear to have him go out of his sight even for
the length of one day, he was of course very loath to send him on
his dangerous expedition. But in the whole army there was no
warrior so strong or so brave as the Prince his son, so that His
Majesty, unable to do otherwise, reluctantly complied with Yamato's
wish.
When the time came for the Prince to start, the King gave him a
spear called the Eight-Arms-Length-Spear of the Holly Tree (the
handle was probably made from the wood of the holly tree), and
ordered him to set out to subjugate the Eastern Barbarians as the
Ainu were then called.
The Eight-Arms-Length-Spear of the Holly Tree of
