To commemorate his father Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, who died in 113 and flew to heaven as a swan, he ordered every province to present some swans, and when Ashikamino Kamami Wakenomiko, his younger half-brother, stole the swans presented by Koshi Province, he executed him.
白鳥となって天に昇った父日本武尊（景行天皇43年（113年）死去）をしのんで、諸国に白鳥を献じることを命じたが、異母弟の蘆髪蒲見別王が越国の献じた白鳥を奪ったため誅殺したとある。