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According to Kojiki (the Record of Ancient Matters) and Nihonshoki (the Chronicle of Japan), kagura had its origin in a Japanese ancient myth of the oracular Amenouzume (goddess of the dawn and revelry) who had performed a dance in a chapter of Ama no iwato (Cave of heaven). 例文帳に追加

古事記および日本書紀においては、天岩戸の段でアメノウズメが神懸りして舞ったという日本神話が神楽の起源であるとされる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Interpreting myth and legend as reflections of historical fact, however, can lead to support for any theory, which only paves the way to endless dispute. 例文帳に追加

ただし現代では、神話伝説を歴史的事実の反映であるとして自説にあうようにそれらしく解釈することは水掛け論を生むばかりで、あまり有意義な議論とは考えられていない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Because the story of turning the eyes into the sun and the moon is a common analogy found across Asia, some consider that the myth was propagated as peoples migrated around the region during prehistory. 例文帳に追加

また両目を日月であるとみなすのはアジア一帯に広まっている普遍的なアナロジーであるため、先史時代の民族移動とともに日本に伝播した神話であるという説もある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Today Ohanjin is deified as a guardian deity of a village as guardians for the community, but was originally a snake god called Rafu in the Indian myth and was feared as a god who brings disasters. 例文帳に追加

現在は道祖神の様に村の守り神として信仰されているが、元々はインド神話に登場するラーフと呼ばれる蛇神であり災害をもたらす神として恐れられた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

"Kojiki" explains that the entrance to the Nenokuni was Yomotsu Hirasaka (the slope that leads to Yominokuni, the land of the dead), which was the same entrance to Yomi (also known as Yominokuni) (see the section of a visit to Nenokuni in the article of the myth of Okuninushi [chief god of Izumo in southern Honshu Island, Japan, and the central character in the important cycle of myths set in that region]). 例文帳に追加

根の国は、その入口を黄泉と同じ黄泉平坂（よもつひらさか）としている記述が『古事記』にある（大国主の神話根の国訪問）。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

There is also a view that Kii Province, especially Kumano Sanzan (three major shrines, Kumano-Hongu-Taisha, Kumano-Hayatama-Taisha and Kumano-Nachi-Taisha), which had a close connection with Susano, was the Nenokuni due to the description in the myth that Okuninushi went to 'Kinokuni' (the land of Ki) before he visited the Nenokuni. 例文帳に追加

また、大国主が根の国へ行く前に「木の国」へ行ったとの記述が神話にあることから、紀伊国、特にスサノオとの縁が深い熊野三山であるとする説もある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Jimmu tosei (Eastern expedition of the Emperor Jinmu) is a tale in Japanese myth of the expedition of the first Kamuyamatoiwarebiko (Emperor Jinmu) of the Imperial family who departed from Hyuga, conquered Yamato and succeeded to Kashiwara no Miya (palace at Kashihara). 例文帳に追加

神武東征（じんむとうせい）は、天皇家の初代カムヤマトイワレビコ（神武天皇）が日向を発ち、大和を征服して橿原宮で即位するまでの日本神話の説話である。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Sadakichi KITA (a historian of modern Japan) forms a conjecture that Sakahoko (a halberd placed upside down) was planted on the peak of Mt. Takachiho-no-mine by an ascetic Buddhist monk who, being prompted by "Jinno Shotoki" and the like, created the myth of the divine descent on Mt. Kirishima. 例文帳に追加

喜田貞吉は、『神皇正統記』などに触発され霧島山降臨の話を作り出した修験者が高千穂峰の山頂に逆鉾を置いたと推察している。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Based on this myth, Hakuto-jinja Shrine enshrines white rabbit, which is considered as a matchmaker deity that brings about marriage to a specific person instead of bringing about marriage with someone in general, and it is considered to have the benefit of realizing a matchmaking with a particular person in mind. 例文帳に追加

なお、この神話から、白兎を祭る白兎神社は、一般的な縁結びではなく、特定の人との縁結びの神様とされ、意中の人との結縁にご利益があるとされる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

In "Kojiki" (The Records of Ancient Matters), this type of myth is found in a tale that Susanoo (Takehaya Susano no Mikoto) who was expelled from the Plain of High Heaven after Iwato-gakure (the hiding of Amaterasu Omikami, the sun goddess, in the heavenly rock cave), asked for food from Ogetsuhime (Ogetsuhime no kami), a deity of grains. 例文帳に追加

古事記においては、岩戸隠れの後に高天原を追放されたスサノオ（速須佐之男命）が、食物神であるオオゲツヒメ（大気都比売神）に食物を求めた話として出てくる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Some understand that this is completely fictitious, while others believe that this myth is based on the historical fact that a power in Kyushu moved to Yamato to build the Yamato Dynasty. 例文帳に追加

この神話の解釈としては、全くの創作であるという説と、九州にあった勢力が大和に移ってきてヤマト王権を築いたという史実を神話化して伝えたものであるという説がある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Although no banana appears in this story, the facts that the name of Iwanagahime includes "Iwa" (rock), in other word, stone, and rejecting her resulted in short life are reasons that this story was regarded as a variation of the banana type myth. 例文帳に追加

この説話にはバナナが登場しないが、岩すなわち石を名前に含むイワナガヒメが選ばれていないこと、それによって短命になったということから、バナナ型神話の変形と考えられている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Although there is still a myth that they were of bad quality, these were just bad quality swords that dishonest dealers sold, so this is not an appropriate evaluation (there were bad quality swords in the early and later period). 例文帳に追加

粗悪品だったという俗説も未だ根強いが、これらはあくまで悪徳業者の販売した粗悪刀等で、一部を除き（初期や末期には粗悪品が見られる）妥当な評価ではない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

A myth says Nigihayahi no mikoto descended to the earth by Amenoiwafune Ship, and was associated with the god of air and aviation (Amenoiwafune is interpreted as airplane) and was chosen as the enshrined deity. 例文帳に追加

饒速日命は神話において天磐船にのって地上に降臨したとされることから、空の神・飛行機の神（天磐船：アメノイワフネ＝飛行機と解釈）として結び付けられ、飛行神社の祭神に選ばれた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

This however was quite natural because Sumiyoshi Sanjin appeared when Izanagi, who had visited the land of the dead after the death of Izanami, carried out a purification ceremony, and therefore it would not be possible to select a myth from the body of a book in which Izanami did not die. 例文帳に追加

しかしこれは当然で、住吉三神はイザナミの死後、黄泉国を訪れたイザナギが禊をした際に化生したためであり、イザナミが死なない本文の神話を挙げることはむしろ考えられない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Especially the former is famous as a myth in which Yamato Takeru, who called himself Osu no Mikoto in those days, dressed up as a woman, sneaked into a bedchamber of Kumaso Takeru brothers and killed them, then he was given the name of younger brother Takeru at that time. 例文帳に追加

特に前者は、当時小碓命と名乗ったヤマトタケルが、女装しクマソタケル兄弟の寝所に忍び込み、これらを討ち、その際に「タケル」の名を弟タケルより献上されたという神話で有名である。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

However, Tagiri-bime, a god of Munakata-taisha Shrine Okitsunomiya on Oki-no-shima Island, which today keeps nyonin kinsei, is also a female god so that the myth that female gods were jealous and abhorred women might be established differently. 例文帳に追加

しかし現在でも女人禁制である沖の島の宗像大社沖津宮の祭神、タギリビメも女神であることから、女神は嫉妬ぶかく、女性を忌むという神話も、別に成立していたのかもしれない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

He was especially fascinated with view of the universe described in purchased literary work of Norinaga such as "Naohi no Mitama" (Core Spirit), "Uiyamabui" (First Steps Up the Mountain), "Tamakatsuma" (a collection of essays), and "Kojiki-den" (Commentary on the Kojiki), and also with Nakatsune HATTORI (Mizuki MITA)'s "Sandaiko" (On the Three Worlds: Between Myth and Reality), which were included in the record as a supplement. 例文帳に追加

購入した宣長の著作『直日霊』や『初山踏』『玉勝間』『古事記伝』及び附録として傳の中に紹介されている服部中庸（箕田水月）の『三大考』の宇宙観には特に魅せられた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

As both of them happened to be named 'Kuranosuke,' there exists an anecdote of a 'face-off between the two Kuranosukes', although it appears to be a myth created after the siege as no evidence to support this currently exists.例文帳に追加

二人が偶然同じ「内蔵助」であったことから「両内蔵助の対決」として世間で評判になったという逸話もあるが、残念ながらこれは討ち入り事件後に創作された話らしく、明確な資料に基づいているわけではない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

On the other hand, researchers such as Lee Yong-hoon of the Seoul National University say that the 'land requisition by Empire of Japan' taught in South Korea is a myth, and the Korean land incorporated by Japan was only 10% from the viewpoint of objective figure. 例文帳に追加

逆にソウル大学校教授李栄薫は、韓国で教えられている「日帝による土地収奪論」は神話であり、客観的数値で見ても日本が編入した朝鮮の土地は10%に過ぎないとする研究者もいる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Additionally, Tsukuyomi is described as the ruler of 'Ochimizu' (the water that turns old people young again)-which is, as pointed out by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevskii, Shinobu ORIKUCHI, and Eiichiro ISHIDA, it is similar to 'Sudemizu' in Okinawa, where the myth about 'the moon and immortality' is widely accepted. 例文帳に追加

また「ヲチミヅ（変若水）」＝ヲツ即ち若返りの水の管掌者として現れ、「月と不死」の信仰として沖縄における「スデミヅ」との類似性がニコライ・アレクサンドロヴィッチ・ネフスキーや折口信夫、石田英一郎によって指摘されている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

In regard to the myth of alchemy, Throth, the Egyptian God of Wisdom, Hermes, the Greek God, and Mercury, the Roman God, were combined as the God Hermes Trismegistos (Three times great Hermes). 例文帳に追加

錬金術の神話的伝承においては知恵の神と伝えられたエジプト神話のトート、ギリシア神話のヘルメス、ローマ神話のメルクリウス（マーキュリー）という別の神格が同一視されて「ヘルメス・トリスメギストス（三重に偉大なヘルメス）」という神が生まれた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Yoshida thought that people in Jomon Period reproduced the myth of 'earth mother who was killed and dismembered but useful things appeared from the parts of her body' by destroying and dismembering earthen figures that were symbols of goddess. 例文帳に追加

これは「地母神が殺されてバラバラにされ、そこから人々の役に立つものが誕生した」という神話を、女神の表象である土偶を破壊して分割することによって儀礼的に再現したものではないか、と考えたのである。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Recently, however, such military swords which were disregarded in the sword world became popular, and at the same time they are reevaluated as researchers and collectors found something new or an unfair and the myth was denied. 例文帳に追加

しかし最近になり、刀剣界では今まで見向きもされなかったこれらの軍刀にも人気が出てきており、同時に研究家や収集家の新たな発見や偏った俗説の否定等、再評価の声が高くなっている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The volume of Kamiyo (ages of gods) in the "Kojiki" (The Records of Ancient Matters), which refers to the Japanese myth, includes a story concerning Takeminakata (a Japanese god) saying to Takemikazuchi (a Japanese god) that he wanted to find out which of them was the stronger god, and attempting to grab Takemikazuchi's arm and throw him, when Takemikazuchi was dispatched to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni (the Central Land of Reed Plains) in order to conquer that place. 例文帳に追加

『古事記』の「日本神話においては、タケミカヅチ（タケミカヅチ）の派遣（葦原中国平定）の際、タケミナカタ（タケミナカタ）が、「然欲爲力競」と言った後タケミカヅチの腕を掴んで投げようとした描写がある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It drew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy, who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.例文帳に追加

若者は無気力だという神話を拒絶した若者たちが、給料の少ない、そして睡眠時間のもっと少ない仕事に自分を捧げるため、家と家族から離れて参加してくれた。だからこの選挙戦はますます力をつけたのです。 - Tatoeba例文

In the Dankun myth, which originated in the Goryeo period of Korea, Dankun, a founder of Dankun (Korea) is regarded as a son who was born from Kanyu, a bastard child of Taishakuten (Kanin in 'Sangokuiji'), and a woman that had humanized from a female bear. 例文帳に追加

朝鮮の高麗時代に成立した檀君神話においては、檀君朝鮮の始祖である檀君は、帝釈天（『三国遺事』では「桓因」）の庶子・桓雄と、雌熊が人間化した熊女との間に生まれた子ということになっている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Later, Sakitatenami Burial Mounds (present Hibasuhime no mikoto ryo (The mausoleum of Princess Hibasu)) which had been called "Omihaka yama" was considered to be Mausoleum of Empress Jingu, and many people visited this place where served as wonder-working deity for a safe birth according achievements of Empress Jingu in myth. 例文帳に追加

後に、「御陵山」と呼ばれていた佐紀盾列古墳群主な古墳（現日葉酢媛命陵）が神功皇后陵とみなされるようになり、神功皇后の神話での事績から安産祈願に霊験ありとして多くの人が参拝していた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

While the enthronement ceremony for the emperor in China had a strong tinge of mutual acknowledgment between the emperor and subjects, it seems that there was room for a religious concept concerning the enthronement ceremony for the emperor in Japan which is based upon the myth of the descent to earth by the grandson of the sun goddess. 例文帳に追加

中国では皇帝の即位式は、皇帝と臣下との相互承認という色彩が強いのに対して、天孫降臨の神話を持つ日本では、即位式に宗教的な観念が入り込む余地が大きかったと見られる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

According to the "Nenjugyojihisyo (descriptions of annual events)" the custom came from China and originated in a legend that, by offering red bean Kayu to Chihyu (a god of Chinese myth) or a woman ghost of the Koshin clan, then eating it, people could escape their curses and avoid evil spirits throughout the year. 例文帳に追加

起源は、『年中行事秘抄』によれば、中国からつたえられたので、この日にあずき粥を蚩尤もしくは高辛氏の女の怨霊に供し、これを食すればその祟りをのがれ、年中の邪気をはらうという伝説に由来するという。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

There is an anecdote that Katsusuke ATOBE and Mitsukata NAGASAKA received bribe when they made peace with Kabekatsu, but since Nobutoyo TAKEDA (the Kai-Takeda clan) of Shinano area was in charge of the negotiations with Kagekatsu, we cannot deny that this is a myth. 例文帳に追加

また景勝との講和にあたり跡部勝資・長坂光堅両人が賄賂を受け取ったという逸話があるが、景勝との交渉は信濃方面の責任者・武田信豊(甲斐武田氏)が行っていることから、俗説である可能性は否定できない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The mythologies above also did not mention Nunagawahime no Mikoto (Nunakawa-Hime) of Koshi no Kuni (Land of Koshi); however, there has been a myth that Takeminakata no Kami, who was mentioned as a child of Okuninushi at the time of conquest of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, was a child born to Okuninushi and Nunagawahime no Mikoto. 例文帳に追加

高志の国の奴奈川姫命（沼河比売）についても記紀神話での記述はないが、葦原中国平定において大国主の子として登場する建御名方神（タケミナカタ）が奴奈川姫との間の子であるという伝承が残されている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The 'Jinno shotoki' (Record of the Imperial Succession) was a work written by Chikafusa KITABATAKE and argues for the legitimacy of the Southern Court line of succession, that it was unbroken since the age of myth, in an attempt to drum up support for the Southern Court in the Kanto; in later times, it was to have a powerful influence on ideologues trying to promote a historiographic view of Japan as divine and Emperor-centered. 例文帳に追加

「神皇正統記」は、南北朝時代に南朝の北畠親房が関東で勢力を集めるために南朝の正統性を神代から記した所で、のちの皇国史観に繋がるイデオロギー的性格の強い史書であった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It is said that the Japanese drum had already been used as a means of the information transmission during the Jomon Period, and the history of the drum in Japan is very old and can even be traced back to a scene in the Japanese myth "ama-no-iwato" (the door of the rock room in heaven) in which a tub was placed bottom upward to make a sound. 例文帳に追加

和太鼓は、縄文時代には既に、情報伝達の手段として利用されていたといわれており、日本における太鼓の歴史は非常に古く、日本神話の天岩戸の場面でも桶を伏せて音を鳴らしたと伝えられている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The recent study by Chuzo MACHIDA, 'The Background of the Establishment of the Nanpo-roku (the Secret Book of Rikyu) and the Birth of the Rikyu Myth' (reported in "No.9 of Chanoyu Bunka-Gaku (The Study of the Culture of Tea Ceremony), 2004), pursues the possibility that the term 'Wakei Seijaku' should be attributed to Daishin Gito (1657 - 1730), the 273rd chief priest of Daitoku-ji Temple. 例文帳に追加

近年の町田忠三氏の研究「『南方録』成立背景と利休虚像の誕生」（『茶の湯文化学』9号所収／2004）では、「和敬清寂」という言葉を作ったのが大徳寺273世の大心義統（1657－1730）であるという可能性を検討している。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

According to one explanation, the story of Shido-shogun is not merely a myth but a part of a narrative of conquest of a country by members of the royal family associated with the dispatch of Toyokiirihikono-mikoto and the legend of Yamato Takeru, thus suggesting how the royal power of the early Yamato dynasty had expanded its hegemony. 例文帳に追加

四道将軍の説話は単なる神話ではなく、豊城入彦命の派遣やヤマトタケル伝説などとも関連する王族による国家平定説話の一部であり、初期ヤマト王権による支配権が地方へ伸展する様子を示唆しているとする見解がある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The deity in this case was the sun god at a time before being granted the divine aspect of Amaterasu, and it is thought that it is because Amenouzume's role was left unchanged that the myth continued to be passed down even after the sun god was given Amaterasu's aspect. 例文帳に追加

この場合の神とはアマテラスという神格が与えられるより以前の古い太陽神信仰であり、後に太陽神の神格がアマテラスへと置き換わった後にもアメノウズメの立場までは置き換わらなかったために現在のような神話として伝わっている、と思われる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

For example, Esoteric Buddhism-related books, such as "Story of Mt. Koya," explain that the Ama-no-iwato myth (Shinto goddess of the Sun hid behind the Cave of Heaven but was enticed out by many deities) depicts the following process: the gate of the iron pagoda in Nantenjiku (South India) opens thanks to the merciful glow of Vairocana Buddha (metaphor of achieving enlightenment) when the enlightenment of all creatures was covered by the long night of earthly desires. 例文帳に追加

例えば、『高野物語』など密教関連の書物では、天岩戸神話を、衆生本覚の悟りを煩悩の「長夜」が覆い隠していたところを、大日如来の光明により南天竺の鉄塔が開く（仏性を得る寓意）様を著したものと解釈する。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

There is also another opinion about a prototype of this myth; Izumo Province was actually in a state of war with Koshi Province in those days, and "Izumo no kuni fudoki" (the topography of Izumo Province) states that 'eight mouths in Koshi' were suppressed in the tale of the place-name concerning Mori village, Ou county. 例文帳に追加

あるいはこの当時、出雲国は実際に越国（北陸地方）との交戦状態にあり、『出雲国風土記』には意宇（オウ）郡母里（モリ）郷（現在の島根県安来市）の地名説話において「越の八口」を平定したと記されており、これがこの神話の原型ではないかという説もある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Seiryu Gongen isn't described in Kyoki (sutra), but according to Kukai's Goyuigo (written will) it was Zennyo Ryuo, (Dragon King Zennyo) the third (also said to be fourth) daughter of Shakara (Sakara, Shagara), one of the Hachidai Ryuo (the eight dragon kings of Indian myth), and lived in Munetsuchi (無熱池) (a legendary pond that is said to be located in the Himalayas). 例文帳に追加

清瀧権現は経軌には説かれておらず、空海の御遺告によると、インド神話に登場する八大竜王の一、沙掲羅（しゃから、シャガーラ）の第三王女（一説には第四王女とも伝えられる）である善女（善如）龍王で、無熱地に住していた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

According to the Koreto Muhonki (a commentary on the Honnoji Incident) and the Renjoin Kiroku (journal written by priests of Kofuku-ji Temple Renjo-in), he wielded a sword himself to cut down enemy soldiers (this is rumored to be a myth, like that of Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA, yet it is open to debate as he was familiar with the art of swordsmanship as it was an essential discipline of that time). 例文帳に追加

また、その奮戦の具体的な内容だが、惟任謀反記や蓮成院記録によると自ら剣をふるい敵の兵を斬ったらしい（足利義輝の最期に似ているため創作ではないかとも思われるが信忠は実際に剣術を習っており、当時はたしなみの1つであったため、あながち嘘とも言えない）。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Shizu no iwaya has its origin in a folklore in the myth of the development of the land by Okuninushi no Mikoto and Sukunahikona no Mikoto, and the place was depicted in a Oishi no Suguri no Mahito's poem in Manyoshu (Volume 3-355) "Onamuchi and Sukunahiko lived in Shizu no iwaya; how many generations that have been passed by?" 例文帳に追加

志都乃石室（しづのいわや）は神話の大国主命と少彦名命の国造り伝承に由来し、万葉集（巻3-355）に収められている生石村主真人（おいしのすぐりのまひと）の「大汝少彦名乃将座志都乃石室者幾代将経（おほなむちすくなひこのいましけむしつのいわやはいくよへにけむ）」に詠まれた地。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

This play is very unique among Joruri plays, for its setting in ancient times, the motif of myths and legends like Ama no Iwato (the Heavenly Rock Cave: the myth that the Goddess of Sun hid herself in the cave), Jusan-gane (Thirteen Bells: the legend that a 13-year-old boy who had killed a deer was punished by Ishikozume) and Kinukake Yanagi (Robe Draped over a Willow: the legend about a court who lady drowned herself in Sarusawa-ike Pond), and particularly its structure similar to current fantasy action, which makes Iruka a horrible monster and the good guys who search for his weakness. 例文帳に追加

古代を舞台にし、天の岩戸・十三鐘・絹懸柳などの神話伝説をモチーフにしている点、とりわけ入鹿を恐るべき怪物にし、その弱点を求めて善玉が活躍するという現代のファンタジーアクションに通じる構成は、他の浄瑠璃作品と比べ極めて異色。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

In the myth of 'Yamasachihiko and Umisachihiko' compiled in the "Kojiki," there is an anecdote: Hitohiro-wani (Hitohiro shark) accompanied Hoori no mikoto (known as Yamasachihiko) on the way back to Ashihara no nakatsukuni (literally 'Central Land of Reed Plains,' which refers to the country or location of Japan) from Watatsumi no miya (the palace of the tutelary of the sea), and on parting with each other, Hoori no mikoto gave Hitohiro-wani (literally 'shark of 1.818m,' as 'hitohiro' is a unit of length equivalent to 6-shaku or 1.818m) a knife with a string, which he had carried with him, and hung it to the neck of Hitohiro-wani, to express his gratitude, therefore, Hitohiro-wani became the deity currently known Sahimochi no kami. 例文帳に追加

『古事記』にある山幸彦と海幸彦の神話に、海神宮から葦原中国に帰る火遠理命（ホオリ　山佐知毘古（山幸彦））を送った一尋和邇（一尋鰐）が、その御礼に、火遠理命が身に付けていた紐小刀を鰐魚の首につけてもらったので、この一尋和邇を、今謂う佐比持神(さひもちのかみ)とある。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス