User:Immanuelle/Isotakeru-no-kami
 | This user page or section is currently being expanded by an editor. You are welcome to help in expanding too. If this page has not been changed in several days, please remove this template. This page was last edited by Immanuelle (talk | contribs) 6 days ago. |
 | This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
 | The English used in this user page may not be easy for everybody to understand. You can help Wikipedia by reading Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages, then simplifying the page. |
| This is a draft being worked on by Immanuelle. It may be too complex at the moment but she wants to get it ready to be an article someday. Others are free to edit it This page was last edited by Immanuelle (talk | contribs) 6 days ago. |
| Isotakeru-no-kami | |
|---|---|
trees | |
 Shrine to worship | |
| Major cult centre | Itakiso shrine Takase Shrine |
| Personal information | |
| Parents |
|
Isotakeru-no-Mikoto (五十猛神), also read as Itakeru-no-mikoto,[1] is a kami and the son of Susanoo and the god of forests and forestry he is worshipped in Itakiso shrine[2][1] and at Takase Shrine[3][4][5][6][7]
He is only called Isotakeru in the Nihon Shoki. He is called Oyabiko in the Kojiki.[7][1]
According to the Nihon Shoki, Susanoo and his son Isotakeru had been driven out of the land of Takamagahara and had landed in Silla.[8] However, they did not like that land and said it was inhospitable so they travelled by boat to Izumo.[1][7][8] There, Susanoo handed over the seeds of the tree he had brought from Takamagahara to Isotakeru and ordered him to sow the seeds all over Japan. [8]
Isotakeru, along with his younger sisters Oyatsuhime and Tsutomuhime, began to sow seeds all over Japan, turning the entire country into forests, finally arriving in the "country of trees", or Kii Province..[8]
A different version of the legend suggests that Susanoo, envious of the prosperity of the land of Han, extracted numerous hairs from his body, which he transformed into a vast assortment of trees. This act was intended to bestow the wealth of timber upon the people. Following this event, his three offspring, Isotakeru, Oyatsuhime, and Tsumatsuhime, took it upon themselves to scatter the seeds of these trees throughout Japan. Subsequently, they settled in the region of Kii. [3] Different hairs from different parts of his body produced different species.[4]
Much later in the Kojiki during the story of the Hare of Inaba he protected Onamuchi when he was being pursued by his eighty brothers.[7][9][10]
Itakiso shrine was originally located on what is the site of Hinokuma Shrine but during the reign of Emperor Suinin was relocated to a place called "Anomori" near its current location, and then relocated again to its present site in 713. [8]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Itakiso-Jinja Shrine". itakiso-jinja.net. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ↑ "Itakiso-jinja Shrine". my secret Wakayama. 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Isotakeru • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史". . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Japan Shinto Kami Gods | Iso Takeru 五十猛神 | Rods Shinto". shintoshrines. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
- ↑ Aragona, Jared. "from Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Vol. 1".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Magatsubi no Kami and Motoori Norinaga's Theology". www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Isotakeru | 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム". web.archive.org. 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Yoshiki, Emi (2007). Zenkoku 'Ichinomiya' tettei gaido (in Japanese). PHP Institute. ISBN 978-4569669304.
- ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. pp. 96–97.
- ↑ Chamberlain (1882). SECT. XXII.—Mount Tema.
