[dubious – discuss] The incident falls into Japan's proto-historic period and is recounted in the Nihon Shoki.
[nb 1][1] Angered by this incident, Silla had reduced the number of ships between the countries and articles sent as tribute.
[2]In order to possess Waka, Emperor Yūryaku had Tasa moved out of the way to the distant post of governor of Mimana and made Waka-hime one of his concubines.
[2]However Oto's wife, Kusu, was a very patriotic woman who foiled Tasa's plot by killing her husband.
[3] Brinkley asserts that Japan lost its standing in Korea "because of Yūryaku's illicit passion for one of his subjects.