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Notes
1. Japan was so termed in ancient times.
2. i.e., Amaterasu-O-Mikami or the Heaven-Shining-Great-August-Goddess. The Goddess has an aspect of the deification of the sun as well as a trace of a human ancestress who once actually existed.
3. In ancient Japanese mythology, the name of the Moon-God is Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto or His Augustness-Moon-Night-Possessor (or Moon-Night-Darkness), i.e., the God of the Night-Dominion.
4. Correctly expressed, Takehaya-Susano-o-no-Mikoto or His-Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness is simply the defication[errata 1] of the rainstorm, although we can admit that there are also in him some traces of an historical human being.
5. Vide Dr. G. Kato’s Article on Ame-no-Minakanushi-no-Kami in T.A.S.J., as regards this God, who probably is the highest God worshipped in the so-called primitive monotheism of Japan.
6. In the manuscript of the Kogoshui to which reference is made by Mikanagi Kiyonao (a Shinto priest of the Ise Shrine), as being preserved in the house of a certain Kawasaki Kiyoatsu, and also in the book Kogoshui Genyosho by Tatsuno-Hirochika (Japanese edition, Vol. I., p. 10), the passage cited from the Kogoshui is in the Ruiju-Jingi-Hongen (Japanese edition. Vol. III, p. 21), in the Zoku-Zoku-Gunsho-Ruiju, and in the Gengenshu (Japanese edition. Vol. II, p. 11), etc., we read:
