About Ashihara no Nakatsukuni →
Hachiman, the great martial kami, stands as the divine shield of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, warding the earthly realm against threats from without.
Amaterasu decreed that Ashihara no Nakatsukuni should be ruled by her descendants, dispatching envoys and ultimately her grandson Ninigi to establish divine sovereignty over the earthly realm (Kojiki).
Emperor Jimmu conquered the Yamato region and established the first imperial court in Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, fulfilling Amaterasu's mandate for her descendants to rule the earthly realm (Kojiki, Nihon Shoki).
Ninigi was sent by Amaterasu to establish divine rule over Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni after Okuninushi ceded sovereignty of the earthly realm to heaven's representative.
Okuninushi ruled Ashihara no Nakatsukuni as its Great Land Master, developing and ordering the earthly realm before ceding it to Amaterasu's descendants (Kojiki).
Izanagi and Izanami created Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, the middle land between heaven and the underworld, through kuniumi.
Ame-no-Hohi was the first envoy sent by the heavenly gods to pacify Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, but he was won over by Ōkuninushi and defected, sending no report back to heaven for three years.
When Amaterasu hid in Ama-no-Iwato, Ashihara no Nakatsukuni was plunged into total darkness alongside Takamagahara, and evil spirits ran rampant across the land (Kojiki).
Kagutsuchi's dismembered body became the volcanic mountains of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, shaping the landscape of the middle realm from the slain fire god's flesh and bone.
Onogoro was the first landmass to emerge from the primordial ocean, formed when Izanagi and Izanami stirred the sea. It served as the foundation from which they created the islands of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni (Kojiki).
Susanoo was banished from Takamagahara for his violent rampage and descended to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, arriving in Izumo where he slew the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi.
The gods of Takamagahara dispatched Takemikazuchi and Futsunushi to wrest control of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni from Ōkuninushi, who surrendered the earthly realm to heavenly authority in the kuniyuzuri.
Takemikazuchi descended to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni to compel Ōkuninushi's surrender, demonstrating overwhelming force at the shore of Inasa and securing the transfer of sovereignty to heaven (Kojiki).
Yomi, the land of the dead, lies beneath Ashihara no Nakatsukuni in Japanese cosmology, connected to the earthly realm through Yomotsu Hirasaka (Kojiki).
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