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Kinooleoliliha Pitman (c. 1825–1855), also written as Kinoole-o-Liliha, was a high chiefess during the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was known as Mrs. Pitman after her marriage. In the Hawaiian language, ''kino 'ole'' means "thin" and ''liliha'' can mean "heartsick". ==Life== Her father was High Chief Hoʻolulu. Her paternal grandfather was High Chief Kameeiamoku, one of the royal twins (with Kamanawa) who advised Kamehameha I, and paternal grandmother was High Chiefess Kahikoloa. Her mother was High Chiefess Charlotte Halaki Cox, whose father lent his name to Keeaumoku II, the Governor of Maui.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kauai Genealogy )〕 Her father and uncle Hoapili were chosen to conceal the bones of Kamehameha I in a secret hiding place after his death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nu'uanu, O'ahu -- Memories: Mauna 'Ala )〕 They placed the bones of the king in a cave along the coastline;〔 it was a great honor to be the last to touch the bones of the king.〔 Her brothers were the High Chief Kaiheekai〔 and the High Chief Mooheau-nui-i-Kaaiawaawa-o-Ulu〔 and her only known sister was the High Chiefess Kahinu-o-kekuaukalani,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kahinu-O-Kekuaokalani-I-Lekeleke HOOLULU )〕 who married William Beckley (1814–1871),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Charles Malulani Kaleipaihala BECKLEY )〕 the hapa-haole son of Captain George Charles Beckley (1787–1826),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Charles BECKLEY )〕 an English sea captain and close friend of Kamehameha I, and his Hawaiian wife, the Chiefess Ahia (1792–1854).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Loaa K AHIA )〕 Some of her famous cousins include: High Chief Kamanawa II and High Chief Aikanaka, sons of her uncle High Chief Kepookalani and grandfathers of Queen Liliuokalani and King David Kalakaua; the High Chiefess Kapiolani, daughter of her aunt High Chiefess Kekikipaa; the High Chiefess Keouawahine, daughter of her aunt High Chiefess Loewahine and grandmother of Princess Ruth Keelikolani; and Kuini Liliha, the daughter of her uncle the High Chief Hoapili.〔 From her father she inherited vast lands in Hilo and Olaa.〔〔 King Kamehameha III granted her control of the ahupuaa of Hilo, thereby making her high chiefess. It was customary that when the lehuas started to bloom, the first blossoms had be strung into the leis for Kinoole. These flowers were called the ''"Lehuas of Panaewa"''.〔 This is one of the remnant traces of the kapu system which gave the noble class special privileges and sacredness. She married Benjamin Pitman, born in Salem, Massachusetts who had arrived in Hawaii from New England in 1833.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Museum given manuscript of early Hilo businessman )〕 Pitman was a prominent businessman in Hilo and Honolulu. He owned a store〔 or ship chandlery in Hilo〔 and in Honolulu took up banking.〔 This marriage, an example of a businessman marrying a landholding high chiefess, such as Kaoanaeha and Namokuelua to John Young, Nakai Nalimaalualu and Kalukuna to Isaac Davis, Bernice Pauahi Pākī to Charles Reed Bishop, Likelike to Archibald S. Cleghorn, Liliuokalani to John Owen Dominis, and Rachel Keliikipikaaneokoolakala to Samuel Parker. Such marriages paved the way for the ranches, plantations, banks and other businesses, through the investment of foreign capital. These chiefesses enjoyed a better life than most women of their time; they had more land than their husband, and spousal abuse by their commoner husbands was unheard of. Like many of the elites of the Hawaiian kingdom, the couple moved to the new capital of Honolulu. They built a beautiful two story house named ''Waialeale'' (''"rippling water"'') at the corner of Alakea and Beretania Streets, now the site of the Honolulu Gas Company office. Surrounded by an iron fence, the walks were paved with tiles.〔 She died soon after the construction of her new home. Her funeral probably had the spirituality and solemnity traditionally associated with the Hawaiian nobility. Instead of a Honolulu funeral, she was buried on the Big Island, her ancestral home. Her remains were taken to Hilo with a large entourage of relatives and friends. The people of Hilo swam out in great numbers to the boat and bore the casket on their shoulders.〔 Native Hawaiians had a strong love and loyalty to their alii (nobility and royalty) unmatched in either Europe or Asia. Their funerals were customarily marked by great mourning and wailing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kinooleoliliha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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