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A second son, Ame no hohi (天菩比命) was then sent, but ended up currying favor with Ōkuninushi and did not report for three years. [79] The third messenger, Ame-no-Wakahiko (天若日子), ended up marrying Shitateruhime (下照比売), Ōkuninushi's daughter with Takiribime.
The Miwa clan (大神氏, Miwa-uji) is a Japanese shake and samurai family who have served the Miwa Shrine for generations. [1] [2] The ancestor of the Miwa family is said to be Okuninushi no Mikoto, [2] via Ōtataneko []. [3]
The descendants of Amenohohi-no-mikoto (天穂日命), the second son of Amaterasu-ōmikami (天照大御神), the sun goddess whose first son is the ancestor of the imperial family, have been, in the name of Izumo Kokuso (出雲国造) or governor of Izumo, taking over rituals because when Izumo-taisha was founded Amenohohi-no-mikoto rendered ...
The tumulus, which the story claims to be made of stone from Mount Ōsaka (大坂山, identified with Mount Nijō on the border of Nara and Osaka, located 15.3 kilometers (9.5 miles) west of the tomb [27]), is said to have been made by men in the daytime and by the gods at night; the stones used in its construction are said to have been ...
Bangladesh is elected to a two-year term on the UN Security Council. 3 June: Zia-ur Rahman wins presidential election and secures his position for a five-year term. 1979: 18 February: The 1979 General Election takes place. Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by Zia scores a decisive victory. [21] 1981: 30 May: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman. 1982: ...
The Kojiki was written first in 711. It is the oldest surviving Japanese book. [11] [12] It is believed that the compilation of various genealogical and anecdotal histories of the imperial (Yamato) court and prominent clans began during the reigns of Emperors Keitai and Kinmei in the 6th century, with the first concerted effort at historical compilation of which we have record being the one ...
India in 1947, before the partition, included the modern Republic of India, along with the land that became Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People's Republic of Bangladesh. [1] Indian reunification refers to the potential reunification of India (the Republic of India) with Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were partitioned from British India in 1947.
A Buddhist pagoda (a Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū shrine in Kamakura before the shinbutsu bunri. The Japanese term shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) indicates the separation of Shinto from Buddhism, introduced after the Meiji Restoration which separated Shinto kami from buddhas, and also Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines, which were originally amalgamated.