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In Japanese mythology, the {{nihongo|creation of Japan|国産み|Kuniumi|literally "birth or formation of the country"}} is the traditional and legendary history of the emergence of the Japanese archipelago, of islands, as narrated in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. According to this legend, after the creation of Heaven and Earth, the gods Izanagi and Izanami were given the task of forming a series of islands that would become what is now Japan. In Japanese mythology, these islands make up the known world. The creation of Japan is followed by the creation of the gods (kamiumi). Creation storyAccording to the KojikiAfter the formation, the Heaven was above and Earth was still a drifting soft mush. The first five gods named {{nihongo|Kotoamatsukami|別天津神||"Separate Heavenly Deities"}} were lone deities without gender[1] and did not procreate. Then came the {{nihongo|Kamiyonanayo|神世七代||"The Seven Divine Generations"}}, consisting of two lone deities followed by five couples. It was the last couple, Izanagi and Izanami that gave earth its solid form and first procreated other gods. The elder gods delegated the youngest couple Izanagi and Izanami to carry out their venerable mandate: to reach down from heaven and give solid form to the earth. This they did with the use of a precious stone-covered spear named {{Nihongo|Ame-no-nuboko|天沼矛||"heavenly jewelled spear"}}, given to them by the elders. Standing over the {{nihongo|Ame-no-ukihashi|天浮橋||"floating bridge of heaven"}}, they churned the chaotic mass with the spear. When drops of salty water fell from the tip, they formed into the first island, Onogoroshima. In forming this island, both gods came down from heaven, and spontaneously built a central support column [1] called the {{Nihongo|Ame-no-mihashira|天御柱||"heavenly pillar"}} which upheld the "hall measuring eight fathoms" that the gods caused to appear afterwards.[2][3][4][5] Then they initiated conversation inquiring of each other's bodily anatomy, leading to a mutual decision to mate and procreate:[4]
Izanami accepted the offer and Izanagi proposed that both should circle around the column Ame-no-mihashira in opposite directions, Izanami going right and Izanagi left and on meeting each other would perform sexual intercourse ({{nihongo|maguwai|麻具波比}}). However, when they met on the other side of the pillar, Izanami was the first to speak, saying: "Oh, indeed you are beautiful and kind youth!", to which Izanagi replied: "Oh, what a most beautiful and kind youth!". Izanagi then rebukes Izanami saying: "It is wrong for the wife to speak first.".[4] However they mated anyway and later fathered a child Hiruko (lit. "leech child), who was placed in a reed boat dragged by the current.[9] Afterwards they gave birth to {{nihongo|Awashima|淡島||lit. "island of foam"}}. Neither Hiruko and Awashima were considered legitimate children of Izanagi and Izanami.[4] Izanagi and Izanami decided to ascend to heaven and consult the primordial gods at Takamagahara about the ill-formed children that resulted from their union. The gods through divination determined that the woman speaking first during the ceremony was the cause. So the couple returned to Onogoroshima island and repeated the ritual encircling column, only making sure the male-god was the first to speak out greeting. When finished they performed the union successfully and lands began to be born.[10] Birth of the islandsAccording to the legend, the formation of Japan started with the procreation of eight large islands by Izanagi and Izanami. In order of birth these islands are the following:[10]
Traditionally these islands are known as Ōyashima (lit. eight large islands) and as a whole are what is currently known as Japan. In the myth neither Hokkaidō nor the Ryukyu Islands are mentioned as these were not known to the Japanese at the time of compiling the Kojiki.[10] Additionally, Izanagi and Izanami then gave birth to six islands:[10][11]
According to the Nihon ShokiThe story of this book only differs in that Izanagi and Izanami volunteered to consolidate the Earth. In addition the two deities are described as "god of yang" (陽神 youshin, male deity) and "goddess of yin" (陰神 inshin, female deity) influenced by the ideas of Yin and yang. The rest of the story is identical, except that the other celestial gods (Kotoamatsukami) do not appear, nor are the last six smaller islands mentioned that were born through Izanagi and Izanami. Notes1. ^Takeda {{Harv|武田|1996|p=22 n6|quote=家屋の中心となる神聖な柱を立てた。}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|ref=harv|last=小向|first=正司|publisher=学研|year=1992|title=神道の本|series=Books Esoterica|volume=2|isbn=|page=27}}(zasshi code 66951-07; kyōtsu zasshi code T10-66951-07-1000) 3. ^{{Harvnb|Chamberlain|2008|p=73}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{Harvnb|Chamberlain|2008|p=74}} 5. ^{{cite book|ref=harv|author-link=:ja:武田祐吉|last=武田|first=祐吉 (Yūkichi Takeda)|editor=中村啓信|title=新訂古事記|publisher=講談社|origyear=1977|year=1996|isbn=4-04-400101-4|pages=21–25}} 6. ^「汝身者如何成也」 (in Old Japanese); 「あなたの体はどのようにできていますか」 (transcription in modern Japanese). Kojiki. 7. ^「妾身層層鑄成 然未成處有一處在」 (in Old Japanese); 「私の体には、成長して、成長していないところが1ヶ所あります」 (transcription in modern Japanese). Kojiki. 8. ^「吾身亦層層鑄也 尚有凸餘處一 故以此吾身之餘處 刺塞汝身之未成處 為完美態而生國土 奈何」 (in Old Japanese); 「私の体には、成長して、成長し過ぎたところが1ヶ所あります。そこで、この私の成長し過ぎたところで、あなたの成長していないところを刺して塞いで、国土を生みたいと思います。生むのはどうですか。」 (transcription in modern Japanese). Kojiki. 9. ^Later popular legends say he became the Japanese god Ebisu. It does not say so in the Kojiki 10. ^1 2 3 {{Harvnb|Chamberlain|2008|p=75}} 11. ^{{Harvnb|Chamberlain|2008|p=76}} References{{reflist}}Bibliography
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