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Cf. B. H. Chamberlain, E.T.K., p. 298. The Emperor Ingyo.
Two other similar songs of the same sort, according to the Kotai-Jingu-Gishikicho, were sung at the Ise Shrine of the Sun-Goddess, on the occasion of the Sacred Feast. These songs are:
“The Courtiers are enjoying themselves very much striking their knees gently, the sound re-echoes through the Sacred Hall!”
“At the joyous divine feast in the Sacred Hall at Isuzu, the sound of the Courtiers’ tapping their knees echoes and re-echoes all over the Hall!”
(The Kotaijingu-Gishikicho or Book on the Ceremonial Rites for Each Month round the Whole Year at the Inner Shrine of Ise. The Gunsho Ruiju, Japanese edition (the Keizaizasshi Sha), Vol. I, p. 39).
76. I.e., the Emperor donated some rice-fields for tillage to the shrines together with husbandmen.
77. Makimuku is in Shiki-no-Kami Kori. Yamato.
78. According to the tradition recorded in the Nihongi and the Kojiki, Yamatohime-no-Mikoto is a daughter of Hihasuhime-no-Mikoto, a consort of the Emperor Suinin, and not his daughter by Sahohime (W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 174). Also, B. H. Chamberlain, E.T.K., p. 183).[errata 1]
79. Vide p. 28, supra.
The author of the Kogoshui took the Abstinence Palace to be the abode of the guardian priestess Yamatohime, but this is incorrect. That the palace or shrine was for the Sun-Goddess herself is proved by the description given in the Nihongi.
“In compliance, therefore, with the instruction of the Great
