Ōyamatsumi, the great mountain god, fathered Iwanagahime and her younger sister Konohanasakuya-hime — the Rock-Long Princess and the Blossom Princess, embodying permanence and fleeting beauty.
Ōyamatsumi offered both daughters to Ninigi: Iwanagahime (immortality) and Konohanasakuya-hime (beauty). Ninigi chose only Konohanasakuya-hime, and Ōyamatsumi declared his descendants would live lives as brief as cherry blossoms.
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