 Twenty-eight Japanese clans are said to be descended from Takenouchi no Sukune, including Takeuchi and Soga.He is a legendary figure, and is said to have drunk daily from a sacred well, and this helped him to live to be 280 years old.Further, he is enshrined as a Kami at the Ube shrine, in the Iwami district of the Tottori Prefecture and at local Hachiman shrines.