Dei of Wa

Dei of Wa (禰), also known as. was a King of Wakoku, who was compared to Emperor Nintoku, founder of the Kawachi dynasty by the oriental historian Hidehiro Okada. He was not among the Five kings of Wa but would be another King of Wa predating them.

He is sometimes identified with “Mye (彌),” the Wa leader mentioned in the Book of Liang,

Kuranishi Yūko identifies him as the father of Sai of Wa who she identifies with Emperor Ingyō. Okada identifies him with Emperor Nintoku, the grandfather of Emperor Yūryaku.

Some dispute the identification as an individual and take the phrase Sodei to refer to ancestors as a whole.

Basis for the name
This is the genealogy proposed by Okada

The name Dei is recorded in the Book of Song as the Japanese king Wangmu to the Song dynasty of the Northern and Southern dynasties of China in 487,

Okada (岡田) said of

is Emperor Nintoku, the grandfather of Emperor Yūryaku. .

Bu of Wa, wrote in a letter addressed to the Song dynasty in China in 487 that he had been engaged in warfare both at sea and abroad since the generation of Grandfather-Dei「祖禰」or his grandfather Dei of Wa. There must be another King of Wa before San, Chin, and Sai.