Emperor Kan-an (Hiro-kuni-oshi-take-kana-hi) reigns briefly with no children, dwelling at the Palace of Kanahashi at Magari. A single sentence chapter. The terseness is no accident: by this point in the chronicle the compilers are working only a few generations from their own composition-present (Kan-an traditionally reigned 531-536 CE; the Kojiki was finished in 712, less than two centuries later), and any narrative invention would have been detectable to living memory. The same compositional discipline operates in any chronicle as it approaches its own time — the Hebrew Bible’s later books (Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles) are markedly more austere in their narrative-to-list ratio than the Pentateuch or the Deuteronomistic History. Documented history forces austerity.