Entering Yamato, Iwarebiko defeated one after another Ukashi the elder of Uda, the Tsuchigumo of Osaka, and Tomibiko, his brother's killer. Nigihayahi, who had come down from heaven earlier, also arrived, saying, "I heard that a child of the heavenly gods had descended, and I followed." He presented the treasures that proved he too was a child of the heavenly gods, and entered his service.
Having brought the wild gods to submission and swept away those who would not obey, Iwarebiko ruled the realm from the palace of Kashihara at the foot of Unebi (Mount Unebi). He was the first emperor, Jimmu.
When the emperor was looking for a maiden fit to be his empress, Okume told him, "There is a maiden who is called the child of a god." The god Omononushi of Miwa had visited a beautiful maiden in the form of a red-lacquered arrow, and their daughter was Isukeyori-hime.
One day seven maidens were playing on the plain of Takasaji, and Isukeyori-hime was among them. Okume asked the emperor in song, "Which maiden will you take as your wife?" The emperor picked out the maiden standing at the front and answered in song. When Okume went to tell her, the princess wondered at his tattooed, piercing eyes and asked in song, "Why are your eyes slit so sharp at the corners?" Okume answered in song, "So that I might find you, my lady, with my own eyes."
The princess agreed to serve the emperor and spent a night with him at her house by the Sai River. Later she was brought to the palace and became empress.