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Yamato no Kuni no Miyatsuko
Hibara Shrine [ja] at the foot of Mount Miwa [en] in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. The shrine is identified as the place where the Yata-no-Kagami and the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi were first enshrined after they were removed from the imperial palace.
HouseMiwa clan
Fathera descendant of Kamo no Okimi [en]



Ōtataneko [ja; fr] (太田田根子) was a Japanese mythological figure[1] He is the traditional ancestor of the Miwa clan [en; fr].[2]

Mythical narrative

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Further information: Mount Miwa, Ōmononushi, and Ise Saiō
Hibara Shrine [ja] at the foot of Mount Miwa [en] in Sakurai, Nara, Nara Prefecture. The shrine is identified as the place where the Yata-no-Kagami and the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi were first enshrined after they were removed from the imperial palace.

Amaterasu (via the Yata-no-Kagami and the Kusanagi sword) and Yamato-no-Okunitama, the tutelary deity of Yamato, were originally worshipped in the great hall of the imperial palace.[3][4]

Infection struck during the 5th year of Emperor Sujin rule, killing half the Japanese population. The following year peasants abandoned their fields and rebellion became rampant.[5] To help relieve the suffering of his people, the Emperor turned his attention towards the gods. At the time, both the sun goddess Amaterasu and the god Yamato-no-Okunitama (倭大国魂神) were enshrined at the Imperial Residence. Sujin became overwhelmed with having to cohabit with these two powerful deities and set up separate enshrinements to house them. Amaterasu was moved to Kasanui village (笠縫邑) in Yamato Province (Nara), where a Himorogi altar was built out of solid stone.[5][a] Sujin placed his daughter Toyosukiiri-hime [ja; en:draft; simple; fr] in charge of the new shrine, and she would become the first Ise Saiō [en; fr],[7]entrusting with her the mirror and sword, she brought them to the village of Kasanuhi.[3][4] Yamato-no-Okunitama (the other god) was entrusted to another daughter named Nunaki-iri-hime [ja; en:draft; simple; fr], but her health began to fail shortly afterward. It is recorded that Nunakiiri-hime became emaciated after losing all of her hair, which rendered her unable to perform her duties.[5] These events still did not alleviate the ongoing plague sweeping the empire, so Sujin decreed a divination to be performed sometime during the 7th year of his reign. The divination involved him making a trip to the plain of Kami-asaji or Kamu-asaji-ga-hara (神浅茅原), and invoking the eighty myriad deities.[5] This worship of the deities is seen as being potentially linked to defining a more complex social order, and organizing the deities of many clans across the region.[8]

Sujin's aunt Yamatototohimomoso-hime [ja; en; fr] (倭迹迹日百襲媛命) (daughter of 7th Emperor Emperor Kōrei) acted as a miko, and was possessed by a god who identified himself as Ōmononushi,[5][9] possibly the same entity as Yamato-no-Okunitama. Ichishi no Nagaochi [ja; en:draft; simple; fr] would conduct the Okunitama rites replacing the emaciated Nunaki-iri-hime [ja; en:draft; simple; fr].[9] Ichishi no Nagaochi [ja; en:draft; simple; fr] would be the ancestor of the Yamato clan.[10] This replacement is taken as a shift towards more patriarchai religion.[9] This god claimed responsibility for the plague, announcing that it would not stop until he was venerated. Although the Emperor propitiated to the god, the effects were not immediate. Sujin was later given guidance in the form of a dream to seek out a man named Ōtataneko [ja; fr] (太田田根子) and appoint him as head priest.[5] He eventually found him in Izumo Province.[9] When he was found and installed, the pestilence eventually subsided, allowing five cereal crops to ripen.[5] Out of an abundance of caution, the Emperor also appointed Ikagashikoo [ja; simple; en:draft; fr] (伊香色雄) as kami-no-mono-akatsu-hito (神班物者), or one who sorts the offerings to the gods.[2] To this day the Miwa sept [en; fr] of the Kamo clan [en; fr] claim to be descents from Ōtataneko [ja; fr], while Ikagashikoo [ja; simple; en:draft; fr] was a claimed ancestor of the now extinct Mononobe clan [en; fr].[2] This has been suggested as representing a population migration from Izumo Province.[11]

Genealogy

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Otataneko is a descendant of Kamo no Okimi [en] displayed here

Susanoo[12][13] Ōyamatsumi[14]
Ashinazuchi[15]TenazuchiKonohanachiruhime [ja][16]
Kushinadahime[17]
Yashimajinumi [ja][16]
Kagutsuchi [en][18]
Kuraokami [en][19]
Hikawahime [ja][20]Fuha-no-Mojikunusunu [ja][21]
Fukabuchi-no-Mizuyarehana [ja]Ame-no-Tsudoechine [ja]Funozuno [ja]
Sashikuni Okami [ja]Omizunu [ja]Futemimi [ja]
Sashikuniwakahime [ja]Ame-no-Fuyukinu [ja][22][23]Takamimusubi [en]
Futodama
Nunakawahime [ja] Ōkuninushi[24]
(Ōnamuchi)[25]		Kamotaketsunumi no Mikoto [en]
Kotoshironushi[26] Tamakushi-hime [en] Takeminakata [en] Susa Clan [en][27]

JAPANESE
EMPERORS
711–585 BC

Jimmu
660–585 BC(1) 		Himetataraisuzu-hime [en][28]Kamo no Okimi [ja]
632–549 BC

Suizei
581–549 BC(2)		 Isuzuyori-hime Hikoyai Kamuyaimimi
d.577 BC		Miwa clan [en]
   * Pink is female.
   * Blue is male.
   * Grey means other or unknown.
   * Clans, families, people groups are in green.




See Also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ During the reign of Sujin's son and successor, Emperor Suinin, custody of the sacred treasures were transferred from Toyosukiirihime to Suinin's daughter Yamatohime [en], who took them first to "Sasahata in Uda" to the east of Miwa. Heading north to Ōmi Province, she then eastwards to Mino Province and proceeded south to Ise Province, where she received a revelation from Amaterasu:

    Now Ama-terasu no Oho-kami instructed Yamato-hime no Mikoto, saying:—"The province of Ise, of the divine wind, is the land whither repair the waves from the eternal world, the successive waves. It is a secluded and pleasant land. In this land I wish to dwell." In compliance, therefore, with the instruction of the Great Goddess, a shrine was erected to her in Ise Province. Accordingly an Abstinence Palace [en] was built at Kaha-kami in Isuzu. This was called the palace of Iso. It was there that Ama-terasu no Oho-kami first descended from Heaven.[6]

    This account serves as the origin myth of the Ise Grand Shrine, Amaterasu's chief place of worship.

References

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  1. ↑ KansaiOdyssey (2017-07-26). "Oh Gods! The Tales of Omononushi". Kansai Odyssey. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chamberlain, Basil. [SECT. LXV.—EMPEROR SŪ-JIN (PART III: STORY OF OHO-TATA-NE-KO'S BIRTH)] (The Kojiki). Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882, reprinted in 1919. p. 219. His Augustness Oho-tata-ne-ko ... was the ancestor of the Dukes of Miwa and of the Dukes of Kamo.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Wikisource link to Book I". Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. Wikisource. 1896. Wikisource page link 151-154. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kogoshūi: Gleanings from Ancient Stories. Translated with an introduction and notes. Translated by Katō, Genchi; Hoshino, Hikoshirō. Meiji Japan Society. 1925. pp. 29–30.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Aston, William George. (1896). Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Volume 2. The Japan Society London. pp. 150–164. ISBN 9780524053478.
  6. ↑ "Wikisource link to Book I". Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. Wikisource. 1896. Wikisource page link 176. 
  7. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細".
  8. ↑ "Contents", Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 189–191, 2017-12-31, doi:10.1515/9780824862848-001, ISBN 978-0-8248-6284-8, retrieved 2023-10-24
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Ellwood, Robert S. (1990). "The Sujin Religious Revolution". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 17 (2/3): 199–217. doi:10.18874/jjrs.17.2-3.1990.199-217. ISSN 0304-1042. JSTOR 30234018.
  10. ↑ "Page:Nihongi by Aston.djvu/208 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  11. ↑ Kidder, J. Edward (2017-12-18). Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 152–168. doi:10.1515/9780824862848. ISBN 978-0-8248-6284-8.
  12. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya (10 May 2005). "Susanoo". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  13. ↑ "Susanoo | Description & Mythology". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  14. ↑ Kaoru, Nakayama (7 May 2005). "Ōyamatsumi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  15. ↑ Fr?d?ric, L.; Louis-Frédéric; Roth, K. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press reference library. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Yashimajinumi". eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp.
  17. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Kushinadahime". eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp.
  18. ↑ "Kagutsuchi". World History Encyclopedia.
  19. ↑ Ashkenazi, M. (2003). Handbook of Japanese Mythology. Handbooks of world mythology. ABC-CLIO. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-57607-467-1. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  20. ↑ Chamberlain, B.H. (2012). Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Tuttle Classics. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0511-9. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  21. ↑ Herbert, J. (2010). Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan. Routledge Library Editions: Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-136-90376-2. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  22. ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. p. 92.
  23. ↑ Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-Of-The-Great Land.
  24. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya; Tatsuya, Yumiyama (20 October 2005). "Ōkuninushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  25. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya (21 April 2005). "Ōnamuchi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  26. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya (28 April 2005). "Kotoshironushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  27. ↑ Tanigawa Ken'ichi [de] 『日本の神々 神社と聖地 7 山陰』（新装復刊） 2000年 白水社 ISBN 978-4-560-02507-9
  28. ↑ Kazuhiko, Nishioka (26 April 2005). "Isukeyorihime". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.


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