is the name under which the queen of King Gihon is known. Gihon was the third and last king of the Shunten dynasty, a largely mythical dynasty that reigned over all or part of Okinawa Island in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Historical sources
Official sources of Ryūkyūan history (Chūzan Seikan, Chūzan Seifu...) mention that there is no data concerning Gihon's queen. , However, the tomb , located in Kishaba in Kitanakagusuku Village, is known locally as the tomb of Gihon's queen.
Traditions linked to the Unajara-uhaka tomb After Gihon abdicated his throne in favour of Eiso, Unajara would have left Urasoe with her children to follow her husband in exile. According to the of Kishaba, said to descend directly from Gihon and Unajara, they first fled into the northern part of the island, to (Kunigami) and then, when the political situation settled, they came back to the central part of the island, first to (Yomitan) and then to (Kitanakagusuku), where they ended their lives peacefully under the benevolent protection of the lord of Chunjun.
According to the traditions recorded by the Hanasaki family, the Unajara-uhaka tomb shelters four funerary urns bearing the inscriptions , , and . Amachi-ō would be Gihon Many old tombs in and around Okinawa Island claim to be Gihon’s tomb, and it is possible that one of the three other urns belongs to Unajara., The Hanasaki family takes care of the tomb and comes and prays in front of it for Shīmī and the other yearly festivals.
Issue Unajara gave birth to at least one son and one daughter, who are mentioned in the Abridged Chronicles of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. Her son marries a woman from Ginowan named who is the heroin of a legend where she tries and sacrifices herself to a dragon, and her daughter marries Machiru's younger brother, ..
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