— 72 —
Goddess, a shrine was erected to her in the province of Ise. Accordingly, an Abstinence Palace was built at Kawakami in Isuzu” (Vide W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, pp. 176, 41).
Moto-ori and S. Kubo agreed with the view expressed by the compilers of the Nihongi (Moto-ori, the Kojikiden, Vol. XV. Collected Works, Japanese edition. Vol. I, p. 85–9. Kobo, the Kogoshui-Kogi or Commentary on the Kogoshui, p. 90.
80. According to the Harima Fudoki or Ancient Topography of Harima, Ame-no-Hihoko came to Japan from Korea in the Divine Age, and the Nihongi states that he arrived in the Emperor Suinin’s reign, whilst the Kojiki dates his arrival long before the Emperor Ojin’s time.
According to the Kojiki and the Engishiki, the Izushi Shrine is sacred to these Eight Divine Objects, which Ame-no-Hihoko brought to Japan.
81. Vide note 77.
82. Vide pp. 23, 43.
83. Legend ascribes several miraculous virtues to this Sword.
Not only did Susano-o-no-Kami obtain it by slaying the monster serpent or Japanese Python, whose tail concealed it, but tradition says that wherever the Sword was, there also was a mass of clouds.
Moreover, according to the Nihongi tradition (W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 205), it was by its miraculous power that Prince Yamatotake himself narrowly escaped being burned to death by the treacherous enemy in the field of Yaitsu in Suruga Province. It is surely a divine object whose supernatural presence protected
