According to the Nihonshoki, he joined Jinmu tosei (Eastern expedition of the Emperor Jinmu) with the troops of his brothers, however, when they were hit by a storm on the way to Kumano, he resented the situation, and said, 'my mother and my aunt are Watatsumi (tutelaries of the sea), why on earth we had to be blocked by the ocean waves,' and went to Tokoyo crossing the sea over the waves.
日本書紀では、兄弟とともに神武東征に従うが、熊野に進んで行くときに暴風に遭い、「母も叔母も海神であるのに、どうして我々は波によって進軍を阻まれなければならないのか」と言って、やはり波頭を踏んで常世に行ったとしている。