When Izanagi fled Yomi after witnessing Izanami's decay, she sent the Yomotsu-shikome to pursue him up the dark slope. He escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka and sealed the passage with the great boulder Chibiki-no-Iwa.
At Yomotsu Hirasaka, Izanagi sealed the passage with the boulder Chibiki-no-Iwa and faced Izanami one final time — she vowed to strangle one thousand of his people each day, and he answered that fifteen hundred would be born, establishing the cycle of human death and birth.
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