I. So the great deity, who was sleeping, started at the sound, and pulled down the house. Therefore did the eight hundred myriad deities assemble in a divine assembly in the bed of the Tranquil River of Heaven, and bid the deity Thought-Includer, child of the High-August-Producing-Wondrous deity, think of a plan, assembling the long-singing birds of eternal night and making them sing, taking the hard rocks of Heaven from the river-bed of the Tranquil River of Heaven, and taking the iron from the Heavenly Metal-Mountains, calling in the smith Ama-tsu-ma-ra, charging Her Augtsness I-shi-ko-ri-do-me to make a mirror, and charging His Augustness Jewel-Ancestor to make an augustly complete string of curved jewels eight feet long - of five hundred jewels - and summoning His Augustness Heavenly-Beekoning-Ancestor-Lord and His Augustness Great-Jewel, and causing them to pull out with a complete pulling the shoulder-blade of a true stag from the Heavenly Mount Kagu, and take cherry-bark from the Heavenly Mount Kagu, and perform divination, and pulling up by pulling its roots a true cleyera japonica with five hundred branches from the Heavenly Mount Kaga, and taking and putting upon its upper branches the augustly complete string of curved jewels eight feet long - of five hundred jewels - and taking and tying to the middle branches the mirror eight feet long, and taking and hanging upon its lower branches the white pacificatory offerings and the blue pacificatory offering His Augustness Grand-Jewel taking these divers things and holding them together with the grand august offerings, and His Augustness Heavenly-Beckoning-Ancestor-Lord prayerfully reciting grand liturgies, and the Heavenly Hand-Strength-Male deity standing hidden beside the door, and Her Augustness Heavenly-Alarming-Female banging round her the heavenly clubmoss the Heavenly -Mount Kagu as a sash, and making the heavenly spindle-tree her head-dress and binding the leaves of the bamboo-grass of the Heavenly -Mount-Kagu in a posy for her hands, and laying a sounding-board before the door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling and stamping, till she made it resound and doing as if possessed by a deity, and pulling out the nipples of her breasts, pushing down her skirt-string "usque ad privates partes". The child of this deity was called the deity Luxuriant-Food-Princess. When they met, Her Augustness, the Female-Who-Invites, spake first, exclaiming, "Ah, what a fair and lovable youth!" Much of Shint thought is based on interpretations of the mythology contained in the Kojiki. The total number of islands given birth to jointly by the two deities the Male- Who-Invites and the Female-Who-Invites was fourteen, and of deities thirty-five. Then he asked him: "What is its form like?" Then Yamato-take's Empress, whose name was Her Augustness Princess Oto-tachibana, said:" Iwill enter the sea instead of the august child. swiftly flying heaven-racing messenger! But the eight-forked serpent of Koshi has come every year and devoured one, and it is now its time to come, wherefore we weep." The Heavenly Sovereign said to His Augustness Wo-usu: "Why does not thine elder brother come forth to the morning and evening great august repasts? When they had finished giving birth to countries, they began afresh giving birth to deities. Again this deity's Chief Empress, Her Augustness the Forward-Princess, was very jealous. As soon as he had finished saying this, the Prince ripped him up like a ripe melon, and slew him. Buy Disk An anthology of Japanese 'Magical Realist' legends and folklore. When the sun shall hide behind the green mountains, in the night black as the true jewels of the moor will I come forth. At this time some chopsticks came floating down the stream. Then he deigned to ask: "Who are ye?" Japanese characters. It happened that at this time his august hair was bound at the brow. VI.The Prince of Tomi and the Shiki Brethren), Section L.Emperor Jim-mu (Part VII.The Empire Pacified), Section LI.Emperor Jim-mu (Part. Then on drawing his sword, the Idzumo bravo could not draw the false sword. The shinten give mythological and historical accounts of the origin of the world; the appearance of the gods, the land, and all the creatures of the universe; the establishment of the Japanese nation; the proper relationship between the gods and government; and ceremonies of worship, manners, and customs. Afterward his younger sister Her Augustness the Female-Who-Invites spoke: " Ah! Without having yet untied even the cord of my sword, without having yet untied even my veil, I push back the plank-door shut by the maiden; while I am standing here, I pull it forward. The names of the deities that were born next were the deity Mud-Earth-Lord; next, his Younger sister the deity -Mud-Earth-Lady; next, the Germ-Integrating deity; next, his younger sister the Life-Integrating-Deity; next, the deity of Elder-of-the-Great-Place; next, his younger sister the deity Elder-Lady-of-the-Great-Place; next, the deity Perfect-Exterior; next, his younger sister the deity Oh-Awful-Lady; next, the deity Izanagi or the Male-Who-Invites; next, his younger sister Izanami or the deity the Female-Who-Invites. The books include the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), the Nihon shoki, or Nihon-gi (Chronicles of Japan), the Kogoshi (Gleanings of Ancient Works), and the Engi shiki (Institutes of the Engi Period). Consequently I think that he certainly thinks I shall die quickly." Ainu resources at sacred-texts. (Eight deities in an from the deity Possessor-of-the-True-Pass-Mountains to the deity Possessor-of-the-Outer--Mountains.) Gleanings In Buddha-Fields So the Great August deity the Male-Who-Invites said to His Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness: "How is it that, instead of ruling the land with which I charged thee, thou dost wail and weep?" He replied, saying: "I have been at that trouble." Next, they gave birth to the deity of Wind, whose name is the deity Prince-of-Long-Wind. These three Ocean-Possessing deities are the deities held in reverence as their ancestral-deities by the Chiefs of Adzumi. Shinto shrines. Shintoism or Shinto (; Shint) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. translated by George William Knox [1892] Confucianism, Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. The twelve deities mentioned in the foregoing list from the deity Come-Not-Place down to the deity Intermediate-Direction-of-the-Shore are deities that were born from his taking off the things that were on his person. So, though he did thus, the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity upbraided him not, but said: "What looks like excrements must be something that His Augustness mine elder brother has vomited through drunkenness. its connection to the Japanese world-view as a whole. Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation This is called the Norito or Kojiki, which is a book of prayers from each said group/family. IXTroubles Which Followed His Decease). [1919] Then, as the sea-water dried, the skin of its body all split with the blowing of the wind, so that it lay weeping with pain. So thereupon His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness said: if that be so I will take leave of the Heaven-Shining-Great-August deity, and depart." The Text and its Authenticity, Together with Bibliographical Notes, IV. I mean to marry the deity Great-Name- Possessor." Manners and Customs of the Early Japanese, V. Religious And Political Ideas of the Early Japanese, Beginnings of the Japanese Nation, and Credibility of the National Records, Section I.The Beginning of Heaven and Earth, Section IV.Courtship of the Deities The Male-Who-Invites and the Female Who-Invites, Section VII.Retirement of Her Augustness The Princess-Who-Invites, Section VIII.The Slaying of the Fire-Deity, Section X.The Purification of the August Person, Section XI.Investiture of the Three Deities; The Illustrious August Children, Section XII.The Crying and Weeping of His Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XIV.The August Declaration of the Division of the August Male Children and the August Female Children, Section XV.The August Ravages of His Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XVI.The Door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling, Section XVII.The August Expulsion of His-Impetuous-Male-Augustness, Section XX.The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-Of-The-Great Land, Section XXIV.The Wooing of the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand-Spears, Section XXVI.The Deities the August Descendants of the Deity Master-of-the-Great-Land, Section XXVII.The Little-Prince-the-Renowned-Deity, Section XXVIII.The August-Luck-Spirit-the-August-Wondrous-Spirit, Section XXIX.The August Children of the Great-Harvest-Deity And of the Swift-Mountain-Deity, Section XXX.The August Deliberation for Pacifying the Land, Section XXXII.Abdication of the Deity Master-of-the-Great-Land, Section XXXIII.The August Descent from Heaven of His Augustness the August Grandchild, Section XXXIV.The August Reign in Himuka of His Augustness Prince Rice-Ear-Ruddy-Plenty, Section XXXVI.The Deity Prince of Saruta at Azaka, Section XXXVII.The Curse of the Deity Great-Mountain-Possessor, Section XXXVIII.The August Child-Bearing of Princess-Blossoming Brilliantly-Like-the-Flowers-of-the-Trees, Section XXXIX.The August Exchange of Luck, Section XL.The Palace of the Ocean-Possessor, Section XLI.Submission of His Augustness Fire-Shine, Section XLII.The Parturition-House of Cormorants' Feathers, Section XLIII.The August Children of His Augustness Cormorant-Thatch-Meeting-Incompletely, Section XLIV.Reign of the Emperor Jim-mu (Part I.His Progress Eastward, and Death of His Elder Brother). Chamberlain, translator 1882] PART I.- THE BIRTH OF THE DEITIES . Therefore Yamato-take praised the old man, and forthwith bestowed on him the rulership of the Eastern lands. So he, drawing the ten-grasp saber that was augustly girded on him, fled forward brandishing it in his back hand;" and as they still pursued, he took, on reaching the base of the Even-Pass-of-Hades, three peaches that were growing at its base, and waited and smote his pursuers therewith, so that they all fled back. When, forthwith crossing over from that land out into Kahi, he dwelt in the palace of Sakawori, he sang, saying: "How many nights have I slept since passing Nihibari and Tsukuha?". The Nihon Shoki The two texts almosts contains the whole mythological background of the Shinto religion while setting out the early history of the Japanese islands. Basil Hall Chamberlain, tr. (Eight deities in all from the deity Foam-Prince to the deity Earthly-Water-Drawing-Gourd-Possessor.) Hereupon they, noisily discussing a rejoicing for the august cave, were getting food ready. So, knowing that he had been deceived, he opened the mouth of the bag which his aunt, Her Augustness Yamato-hine had bestowed on him, and saw that inside of it there was a fire-striker. better results, and managed to complete the proof. Thereupon, while he stood knowing no place of exit, a mouse came and said: " The inside is hollow-hollow; the outside is narrow-narrow." as well as other texts Emperor Nin-toku Part V.The Empress Retires to Yamashiro), Section CXXIV.Emperor Nin-toku (Part VI.He Follows the Empress into Yamashiro), Section CXXV.Emperor Nin-toku (Part VIII.He Loves Yata-no-waki-iratsume), Section CXXVI.Emperor Nin-toku (Part VIII.Death of King Hayabusa-Wake and Queen Medori), Section CXXVII.Emperor Nin-toku (Part VIII.Queen Medori's Armlet), Section CXXVIII.Emperor Nin-toku (Part IX.A Wild-Goose Lays an Egg), Section CXXIX:Emperor Nin-toku (Part X.A Vessel Is Made Into A Lute), Section CXXX.Emperor Nin-toku (Part XI.His Age and Place of Burial), Section CXXXI.Emperor Ri-chiu (Part I.Genealogies), Section CXXXII.Emperor Ri-chiu (Part II.He is Taken to Iso-no-kami), Section CXXXIII.Emperor Ri-chiu (Part III.His Rebellious Brother and the Latter's Retainer Sobakari Are Slain), Section CXXXIV.Emperor Ri-chiu (Part IV.Various Deeds), Section CXXXV.Emperor Ri-chiu (Part V.His Age and Place of Burial), Section CXXXVII.Emperor In-giy (Part IGenealogies), Section CXXXVIII.Emperor In-giy (Part II.His Sickness is Cured by a Korean Physician), Section CXXXIX.Emperor In-giy (Part III. I have eaten of the furnace of Hades. THE AUGUST EXPULSION OF HIS IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS. Next he said to His Augustness Moon-Night-Possessor: "Do Thine Augustness rule the Dominion of the Night." These three deities are of the three great deities held in reverence by the dukes of Munakata. So the bare did as it was instructed, and its body became as it bad been originally. Corrections? shinto origins shinto history shinto beliefs. So, mounting to the top of the pass, he sighed three times and spoke, saying: " Adzuma ha ya!" The names of the deities that were next born from the blood that stuck to the upper part of the august sword and again bespattered the multitudinous rock-masses were: the Awfully-Swift deity; next, the Fire-Swift deity; next, the Brave-Awful-Possessing-Male deity, another name for whom is the Brave-Snapping deity, and another name is the Luxuriant-Snapping deity. KAKUZO OKAKURA The Ideals of the East by Kakuzo Okakura [1904] In 2005, I rescanned the book using more recent OCR software with Shinto, an ancient Japanese religion, is still practiced today and has been considered the formal state religion of Japan. Moreover, on its body grows moss, and also chamaecyparis and cryptomerias. One of the reasons that sakaki trees are considered sacred in Shinto has to do with the fact that they are evergreens and therefore symbolic of immortality. passion and betrayal, all interspersed with extemporaneous Updates? by Kakuzo Okakura [1906] I searched for a long time to locate a copy of the Tuttle reprint of the The history and practice of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. It is only that when the Great August deity our father spoke, deigning to inquire the cause of my wailing and weeping, I said: 'I wail because I wish to go to my deceased mother's land' -- whereupon the Great-August deity said: 'Thou shalt not dwell in this land,' and deigned to expel me with a divine expulsion. In this manner each day a thousand people would surely be born." Again the Heavenly Sovereign said: "How didst thou take the trouble?" The eightfold fence of Idzumo makes an eightfold fence for the spouses to retire within. The name of the deity that was born from the august girdle which he next threw down was the deity Road-Long-Space. All the eight deities in the above list, from the deity Rock-Splitter to the deity Kura-mitsuha, are deities that were born from the august sword. Though thou bearest the bag, Thine Augustness shall obtain her.". Some of the myths have a very clear political purposes. A wonderful thousand-year-old collection of Tanka poetry. Over 1700 books. When I take and attire myself so carefully in my raiment dyed in the sap of the dye-tree, the pounded madder sought in the mountain fields, and, like the birds of the offing, look at my breast though I raise my fins, I say that they are good. Only the Island of Onogoro was not given birth to and, moreover, the Leech-Child and the Island of Aha are not reckoned among the children.). Hold the world's wisdom in the palm of your hand. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. Shintoism (or simply 'Shinto') is an ancient religion of Japan. If thou, single pine-tree! VIII.He Weds I-suke-yori-hime). by Kakuzo Okakura [1904] Hereby shall we know whether it or my tribe is the larger.' Then she sent him swiftly off to the august place of the deity Great-House-Prince in the land of Ki. The names of the deities that were born as he bathed in the middle of the water were: the deity Possessor-of-the-Ocean-Middle and, next, His Augustness Elder-Male-of-the-Middle. It is therefore solely with the thought of taking leave of thee and departing, that I have ascended hither. Translations of a selection of N dramas, which The names of the deities that were born in the Plain of High Heaven when the Heaven and Earth began were the deity Master-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven; next, the High-August-Producing-Wondrous deity; next, the Divine-Producing-Wondrous deity. Omissions? Next, they gave birth to the deity of Trees, whose name is deity Stem-Elder; next, they gave birth to the deity of Mountains, whose name is the deity Great-Mountain-Possessor. Though thou say that thou wilt not weep - if like the Rocking birds, I flock and depart, if, like the led birds, I am led away and depart, thou wilt hang down thy head like a single eulalia upon the mountain and thy weeping shall indeed rise an the mist of the morning shower. It involves the worship of kami, which can be translated to mean "sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers, and fertility." So he buried the divinely retired deity the Female-Who-Invites on Mount Hiba, at the boundary of the Land of Idzumo and the Land of Hahaki. The names of the deities that were next born to rectify those evils were: the Divine-Rectifying-Wondrous deity; next, the Great-Rectictifying-Wondrous deity; next, the Female-Deity-Idzu. THE KOJIKI WRITTEN BY GABI VIVERO Photo by <Fernando> 4. Again on the night of the next day the Impetuous--Male deity put him into the centipede and wasp-house; but as she again gave him a centipede and wasp-scarf, and instructed him as before, he came forth calmly. So when we drive it down, do thou wait and catch it. Emperor In-giy (Part IV.His Age and Place of Burial), Section CXLI.Emperor In-giy (Part V.Prince Karu Loves His Sister Princess So-tohoshi), Section CXLII.Emperor In-giy (Part VI.War Between Prince Karu and Prince Anaho), Section CXLIII.Emperor In-giy (Part VII.Death of Prince Karu and Princess So-tohoshi), Section CXLIV.Emperor An-k (Part I.He Slays King Oho-kusaka), Section CXLV.Emperor An-k (Part II.He is Slain by King Ma-yowa), Section CXLVI.Emperor An-k (Part III.Prince Oho Hatsuse Slays Princes Kuro-biko and Shiro-biro), Section CXLVII.Emperor An-k (Part IV.Death of Prince Ma-yowa and of the Grandee Tsubura), Section CXLVIII.Emperor An-k (Part V:Prince Oho-Hatsuse Slays Prince Oshiha), Section CXLIX.Emperor An-k (Part VI.Flight of Princes Ohoke and Woke), Section CL.Emperor Y-riyaku, (I.Genealogies), Section CLI.Emperor Yu-riyaku (Part II.Various Deeds), Section CLII.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part III.The Roof of the House of the Great Departmental Lord of Shiki), Section CLIII.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part IV.He Wooes Princess Waka-kusaka-be), Section CLIV.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part V.Story of the Woman Akawi-ko), Section CLV.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part VI.He Makes a Progress to Yeshinu), Section CLVI.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part VII.The Horse-fly and the Dragon-fly), Section CLVII.Emperor Yu-riyaku (Part VII.Adventure with a Wild Boar), Section CLVIII.Emperor Y-Riyaku (Part IX.Revelation of the Great Deity of Kadzuraki, Lord of One Word), Section CLIX.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part X.The Mound of the Metal Spade), Section CLX.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part XI.The Leaf in the Cup), Section CLXI.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part XII.Songs by the Emperor and Princess Wodo), Section CLXII.Emperor Y-riyaku (Part XIII.His Age and Place of Burial), Section CLXIII.Emperor Sei-nei (Part I.Search for a Successor to Him), Section CLXIV.Emperor Sei-nei (Part II.Princes Ohoke and Woke are Discovered), Section CLXV.Emperor Sei-nei (Part III.The Grandee Shibi), Section CLXVI.Emperor Sei-nei (Part IV.Prince Ohoke Cedes the Empire to Prince Woke), Section CLXVII.Emperor Ken-z (Part I.The Old Woman Oki-Me), Section CLXVIII.Emperor Ken-z (Part II.He Slays The Boar-Herd), Section CLXIX.Emperor Ken-z (Part III.The Emperor Y-riyaku's Mausoleum is Disfigured), Section CLXX.Emperor Ken-z (Part IV.His Age and Place of Burial), Appendix I: Japanese Text of the Songs of the Kojiki, Transliterated into Roman, Appendix II. The names of the deities born from her vomit were the deity Metal-Mountain-Prince and, next, the deity Metal-Mountain-Princess. wert a person, I would gird my sword upon thee, I would clothe thee with my garments - O mine elder brother, the single pine-tree!". Sacred objects of worship that represent the kami are stored in the innermost chamber of the shrine where they cannot usually be seen by anybody. So do you go and fetch every member of your tribe, and make them all lie in a row across from this island to Cape Keta. This song is a land-regretting song. So that place was called by the name of Tagi. And she forthwith, unbinding her august hair, twisted it into august bunches; and both into the left and into the right august bunch, as likewise into her august head-dress and likewise on to her left and her right august arm, she twisted an augustly complete string of curved jewels eight feet long, of five hundred jewels, and, slinging on her back a quiver holding a thousand arrows, and adding thereto a quiver holding five hundred arrows, she likewise took and slung at her side a mighty and high sounding elbow-pad, and brandished and stuck her bow upright so that the top shook, and she stamped her feet into the hard ground up to her opposing thighs, kicking away the earth like rotten snow, and stood valiantly like unto a mighty man, and, waiting, asked: "Wherefore ascendest thou hither?" Do you go around from the left, and I will go from the right." The name of the deity that was next born from his private parts was the deity Possessor-of-the-Dark-Mountains. [This difficult song has been rather differently rendered by Mr. Aston in the Second Appendix to his " Grammar of the Japanese Written Language." Forthwith entering the land of Idzumo, and wishing to slay the Idzumo bravo, he, on arriving, forthwith bound himself to him in friendship. So take them "-and with this command he sent him off. Having descended from Heaven on to this island, they saw to the erection of a heavenly august pillar, they saw to the erection of a hall of eight fathoms. The narrative moves from mythology to historical legends, So the great deity the Male-Who-Invites dwells at Taga in Afumi. ", THE CRYING AND WEEPING OF HIS IMPETUOUS-MALE-AUGUSTNESS. Samurai and Japanese feudalism, Get a Tarot Card Reading! Thank you! Updates? Beneath the fluttering of the ornamented fence, beneath the softness of the warm coverlet, beneath the rustling of the cloth coverlet, thine arms white as rope of paper-mulberry bark softly patting my breast soft as the melting snow, and patting each other interlaced, stretching out and pillowing ourselves on each otber's arms-true jewel-arms, and with outstretched legs, will we sleep. This means that a person's soul goes through a cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. Then Princess Cockle-Shell triturated and scorched her shell, and Princess Clam carried water and smeared him as with mother's milk, whereupon he became a beautiful young man, and wandered off. While she picked them up and ate them, he fled on; but as she still pursued him, he took and broke the multitudinous and close-toothed comb in the right bunch of his hair and cast it down, and it instantly turned into bamboo-sprouts. history of Shinto in Japan. 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