Konohanasakuyahime
Konohanasakuyahime no mikoto (Japaneseコノハナ〔ノ〕サクヤヒ(ビ)メ( Kojiki :木花 之 佐 久 夜 毗 売,木花(华)开 耶 姫 命); Karl Florence translated as " The like tree blossoms gorgeous Blooming Princess " more names see below) is a female kami in the Shinto mythology, daughter of Ōyamatsumi, wife of Ninigi and mother of Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori ( Hohodemi ), and the Kami of Mount Fuji.
Marriage and children
In the myths it is introduced as a beautiful girl who meets the Ninigi the Cape of Kasasa. After he allowed himself to enlighten her about her name, her father and her older sister, he expresses the desire to copulate with her ( equivalent to a marriage proposal ). Konohanasakuyahime gives him to understand but that would decide her father Ōyamatsumi. This is very pleased with Ninigis prayers and gave him konohanasakuyahime, all kinds of gifts and even his other daughter, Ihanagahime. However Ninigi leaned Ihanagahime their ugliness from because what Ōyamatsumi him and his descendants ( the Tennō ) cursed with mortality.
In the very next night konohanasakuyahime had become pregnant ( hara -mu ). Ninigi did not believe that the child he was, and said that any earthly kami to be the father. Konohanasakuyahime answered him in this suspicion that her confinement ( ko -mu ) may extend unhappy if the father is actually an earthly Kami, happy but if he was a heavenly Kami as Ninigi.
She then retired to a home-made birth Hall withdrew, closed the entrance with clay soil and put the hall on fire and gave birth during the fire her three sons Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori (also Hohodemi, the names of these three children all have something to do with fire and, in the different parts and variations of the myths often differ, sometimes there are even four children). Mother and children were not used in this trial by fire damage, which was proven by the loyalty konohanasakuyahime to her husband.
Cult and worship
Konohanasakuyahime is generally regarded as kami of Mount Fuji. A oku - miya (side shrine of a mountain shrine ) of the main shrine of her cult, the Mount Fuji HONGU Sengen Taisha is at its peak (富士山 本 宫 浅 间 大 社), said to have been built in the year 27 BCE by Suinin - tennō. This shrine has awarded more than 1,300 Bunrei (see shintai ). Sengen -jinja is also the name of many others, konohanasakuyahime dedicated shrines. Several hundred are located on the slopes of Mount Fuji.
There are, however, no written documents that provide information about how konohanasakuyahime was associated with Mt.
Furthermore konohanasakuyahime the main kami of the shrine Agata ( Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture ) and the Asamine shrine ( Nagaoka -gun, Kōchi Prefecture). In some other shrines they venerated with several of her family members. Many of the most important shrines also have side shrines for them, the Sakura - ō - toji -no- jinja of Katori - jingū ( Sawara, Chiba Prefecture ), the Asama -jinja of Mitsumine shrine ( Saitama Prefecture) and Koyasu -jinja of Taga Taisha ( Hikone, Shiga Prefecture).
During the Edo period konohanasakuyahime was also worshiped by businessmen and merchants in Osaka and the surrounding area.
Name
The most common name of konohanasakuyahime are:
- Ataka - ashi -tsu -hime
- Ka - ashi -tsu -hime (near Florence "Deer Reed Princess" )
- Kami- ataka - ashi -tsu -hime
- Kamu -ata -tsu -hime (near Florence " The Divine Princess of Ata " )
- Kamu - toyo -ata -tsu -hime
- Toyo -ata -tsu -hime
- Ko -no- hana -no- saku -ya -hime