Nomi-no-Sukune

Nomi -no- Sukune (Japanese野 见 宿 祢) is a hero from Japanese mythology.

Mythical reports

In Nihonshoki you told the Suinin - tennō the brave man the Taima -no- Kuehaya (当 麻 蹴 速), which is because of its superior strength in search of someone with whom he could measure his strength. The Tennō wanted to know it by his ministers, whether Taima -no- Kuehaya was the greatest fighter of the empire or let someone find something comparable. One of the ministers came forward then and also reported on the brave Nomi -no- Sukune from the land of Izumo. On the same day sent the Tennō after Sukune, who came to the imperial court and at once on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the reign of Suinin - tennō with Kuehaya the fight began. Sukune won the fight by breaking Kuehaya with kicks his ribs and loins, and thus killed. Nomi -no- Sukune got on the lands of the Taima -no- Kuehaya and remained as a servant in the imperial court.

Also, according to the Nihon Shoki has Nomi -no- Sukune after the death of Hibasu -hime no Mikoto, wife of Suinin - tennō, proposed in the 32nd year whose reign clay figures instead of human sacrifice as grave goods, which the potter's clans were also responsible for part of the imperial funerals. The Nihon Shoki reported that these so -down for the first time to use clay figures were called Hani - wa ( " tone rings " ) and Tate - mono ( "Installation of things ").

Worship

Nomi -no- Sukune is still the patron saint of Sumotori ( sumo wrestler ). When that he is mainly worshiped in a mid- Meiji Shinto Shrine erected time near the Tokyo Kokugi -kan ( the venue for many Hon - basho ). Other shrines are the Ō- nomi -no- Sukune Shrine in Tottori and the two nominal shrines in Takatsuki.

In most shrines Nomi -no- Sukune but as a ancestor of the Sugawara family worshiped ( also from the Sugawara no Michizane came from ), including the Hōfu Tenman- gū in Hōfu, the Dazaifu Tenman- gū in Dazaifu, the Sugawara Shrine in the Nara Prefecture ( county Ikoma ), the Ten - shrine in the district Sumiyoshi -ku from Osaka, the Sugawara Shrine, Sakai and Osaka Tenman- gū in Osaka.