Konohanasakuyahime

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Konohanasakuyahime no mikoto ( Japaneseコ ノ ハ ナ 〔ノ〕 サ ク ヤ ヒ (ビ) メ ( Kojiki : 木花 之 佐 久 夜 毘 売 、 木花 (華) 開 耶 姫 命); Karl Florenz translates as "The princess that is beautifully blooming like tree blossoms", Names see below ) is a female Kami in Shintō mythology , daughter of Ōyamatsumi , wife of Ninigi and mother of Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori ( Hohodemi ), as well as the Kami of Fujisan .

Marriage and children

In the myths she is introduced as a beautiful girl whom Ninigi meets on Cape Kasasa. After asking her to explain her name, her father and her older sister, he expresses the wish to mate with her (equivalent to a marriage proposal). Konohanasakuyahime gives him to understand that her father Ōyamatsumi must decide that. He is pleased with Ninigi's requests and gave him Konohanasakuyahime, many presents and his other daughter, Iwanaga-hime . Ninigi, however, rejected Iwanaga-hime because of their ugliness, for which Ōyamatsumi cursed him and his descendants (the Tennō ) with mortality.

The very next night Konohanasakuyahime became pregnant ( hara-mu ). Ninigi did not believe that the child was his and said that some earthly kami must be the father. Konohanasakuyahime responded to this suspicion that her confinement ( ko-mu ) might be unhappy if the father was actually an earthly kami, but happy if he was a heavenly kami like Ninigi.

Thereupon she withdrew into a self-made birth hall, closed the entrance with clay and set the hall on fire and during the fire gave birth to her three sons Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori (also Hohodemi ; the names of these three children all have something to do with fire and often differ in the different parts and variants of the myths, sometimes there are even four children). Mother and children were not harmed in this ordeal , which proves Konohanasakuyahime's loyalty to her husband.

Cult and adoration

Konohanasakuyahime is commonly known as the Kami of Mount Fujisan. At its summit is an oku-miya (side shrine of a mountain shrine) of the main shrine of their cult, the Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha ( 富士山 本 宮 浅 間 大 社 ), which dates back to 27 BC. u. Z. of Suinin -tennō is said to have been built. This shrine has given over 1,300 bunrei (see shintai ). Sengen-jinja is also the name of many other shrines dedicated to Konohanasakuyahime. There are several hundred on the slopes of Mount Fuji.

However, there are no written documents that provide information on how Konohanasakuyahime was associated with Mount Fuji.

Furthermore, Konohanasakuyahime is the main kami of the Agata Shrine ( Hamamatsu , Shizuoka Prefecture) and the Asamine Shrine (Nagaoka-gun, Kōchi Prefecture ). In some other shrines she is venerated with various of her family members. Many of the most important shrines also have side shrines for them, such as the Sakura-ō-toji-no-jinja of the Katori-jingū (Sawara, Chiba Prefecture ), the Asama-jinja of the Mitsumine Shrine ( Saitama Prefecture ) and the Koyasu-jinja des Taga-Taisha (Hikone, Shiga Prefecture ).

During the Edo period , Konohanasakuyahime was also worshiped by businessmen and traders in Osaka and the surrounding area.

Names

The most common names of Konohanasakuyahime are:

  • Ataka-ashi-tsu-hime
  • Ka-ashi-tsu-hime ("Deer-Reed Princess" near Florence)
  • Kami-ataka-ashi-tsu-hime
  • Kamu-ata-tsu-hime (near Florence "The divine princess of Ata")
  • Kamu-toyo-ata-tsu-hime
  • Toyo-ata-tsu-hime
  • Ko-no-hana-no-saku-ya-hime

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD 697 , translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston . Book II, page 73. Tuttle Publishing. Tra Edition (July 2005). First edition published: 1972. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6 .
  2. ^ A b Jean Herbert: Shintô: At the Fountainhead of Japan . Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-0-203-84216-4 , pp. 421 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD 697 , translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston . Book II, page 70. Tuttle Publishing. Tra Edition (July 2005). First edition published: 1972. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6 .

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