page_title: Onogoro Island
section_title: Folklores of the Area surrounding of Onogoro Island
hierarchical_section_title: Onogoro Island / Folklores of the Area surrounding of Onogoro Island
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 上立神岩。淡路島南岸の沼島にて。
context_page_description: Onogoroshima is an important island in Shinto. Onogoro literally means "muddy sea has the ability to bind rocks and stones accumulated to form a bridge".
context_section_description: Nushima (沼島)
  Nushima is a mysteriously shaped island like a magatama from the sky, located 4.6km above the southern sea of Awaji Island. In 1994, an island where a very rare rock was discovered and is called "Sayagata-shūkyoku (鞘型褶曲, i.e. "Sheath-shaped Fold)", which is regarded as the " Chikyū-no-Shiwa (地球のしわ, i.e. "Wrinkle of the Earth")" is a 100 million years old.
  There are many rocks and reefs on the shoreline of Numashima, and on the southeast coast, a towering giant rock “Kamitategami-Iwa (上立神岩)” with a height of about 30 metres which looks like a spear, has become a reminiscent symbol and icon that became the origin of the "Birth of the Japanese nation: (kamiumi). This rock, which appears as in mythology, is also called "Ame-no-mihashira (天の御柱, "the Pillar of Heaven") and is said to be the one Izanagi and Izanami descended to.
caption: Kamitategami-Iwa, in the island of Nushima
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