nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: In the Kinki and Chugoku regions, Doku-shin (also pronounced Doko-jin), a god of Onmyodo (the way of Yin and Yang; an occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements), is worshiped as Kamado-gami.
Japanese: また近畿地方や中国地方では、陰陽道の神・土公神がかまど神として祀られた。
English: It is thought that the god moves from one place to another depending on the season: the kamado in spring, the gate in summer, the well in fall, and the garden in winter.
Japanese: 季節ごとに春はかまど、夏は門、秋は井戸、冬は庭へ移動すると考えられている。
English: Therefore, there is this idea that the kamado forms a boundary between the world of shadows, the underworld, or "reikai" (next world) and the "utsushiyo" (actual world); and that the Kamado-gami is an ambiguous god, who plays a role as a mediator between both worlds and as a regenerator of order.
Japanese: したがって、影や裏側の領域、霊界（他界）と現世との境界を構成する場所とし、かまど神を両界の媒介、秩序の更新といった役割を持つ両義的な神とする考え方もある。
English: There is a legend that those who treat this god improperly will receive divine punishment and that climbing on the kamado will make the god angry.
Japanese: この神は粗末に扱うと罰が当たる、かまどに乗ると怒るなど、人に祟りをおよぼすとの伝承もある。
English: Because she is described as 'imoto (literally 'younger sister') Izanami' in some documents, she may be misinterpreted as a younger sister of Izanagi.
Japanese: 文中に「妹伊邪那美」の記述があるためイザナギの妹であると誤解される。
English: However, in this case, 'imoto' affectionately referred to a wife or girl younger than oneself.
Japanese: しかし、この場合の「妹」は妻や年下の女性を親しみを込めて使う言葉であった。
English: In the creation of heaven and earth, Izanami and Izanagi were the last generation of Kaminoyonanayo (seven generations of gods).
Japanese: 天地開闢(日本神話)において神世七代の最後にイザナギとともに生まれた。
English: Izanami and Izanagi had a lot of children who formed the land of Japan.
Japanese: 国産み・神産みにおいてイザナギとの間に日本国土を形づくる多数の子を設ける。
English: They created the Japanese Islands starting with Awaji-shima Island and Oki no shima Island, and then created the various gods of nature, including the mountain god and sea god.
Japanese: その中には淡路島・隠岐島からはじめやがて日本列島を生み、更に山・海など森羅万象の神々を生んだ。
English: When Izanami gave birth to Kagutsuchi (the god of fire), she burned her genitalia, got sick, and eventually died.
Japanese: 火の神カグツチを産んだために女性器に熱傷を負って病に臥せのちに亡くなる。
English: The "Kojiki" (Records of Ancient Matters) says that her body was buried in Hibanoyama Mountain (currently, Hakuta-cho, Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture), located on the border between Izumo Province and Hahaki (Hoki Province), while an addendum to the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) says that her body was buried in Arima-mura, Kumano, Kii Province (Hananoiwaya-jinja Shrine in Arima, Kumano City, Mie Prefecture).
Japanese: なきがらは、『古事記』によれば出雲国と伯伎（伯耆国）の境の比婆山（現在の島根県安来市伯太町）に、『日本書紀』の一書によれば紀伊国の熊野の有馬村（三重県熊野市有馬の花窟神社）に葬られたという。
English: Izanagi went to Yominokuni (the realm of the dead) to see Izanami but when he saw her decomposed body, Izanami was ashamed and chased Izanagi, who had fled in terror.
Japanese: 死後、イザナミは、自分に逢いに黄泉国までやってきたイザナギに腐敗した死体を見られたことを恥じ、恐怖で逃げるイザナギを追いかける。
English: However, Izanagi blocked the road at the Yomotsu Hirasaka, the slope that forms the border between the land of the dead and the world above, so that they would not see each other again.
Japanese: しかし、イザナミに対してイザナギが黄泉国と地上の境である黄泉比良坂（よもつひらさか）で道を塞ぎ、会えなくしてしまう。
English: After that, Izanami became the ruling goddess of Yominokuni, and was called Yomotsu Okami or Chishiki no Okami.
Japanese: この後、イザナミは黄泉国の主宰神となり、黄泉津大神、道敷大神と呼ばれるようになった。
English: The 'Izana' part of her name comes from 'izanau' (invite), and 'mi' signifies a female.
Japanese: 名前の「いざな」は「誘う（いざなう）」の意で、「み」は女性を表す語である。
English: There is also another theory that Izanami ('nami' means wave) and Izanagi ('nagi' means lull) are paired.
Japanese: また、イザ・ナミ（波）と解してイザ・ナギ（凪）と対の神名であるとする説もある。
English: There is a theory that the place name Izumo (出雲) is derived from Izumo (稜威母), which was the eulogistic name of Izanami, mother god of Japan.
Japanese: 出雲という地名は日本国母神である、イザナミの美称、稜威母（イズモ）からきたという説もある。
English: Hoki Province, adjacent to the eastern part of Izumo Province, was called Hahaki (which mean 'mother's port') in ancient times.
Japanese: 出雲国の東側に隣接していた伯耆国は古代には伯伎（ハハキ母の港）と呼ばれた。
English: In the Edo period, the area where the Izumo mausoleum of the gods is located (Hakuta-cho, Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture) was known as Mori Domain (written with characters meaning 'mother's village'), a sub-domain of Matsue Domain.
Japanese: 出雲の神陵在地(島根県安来市伯太町)は江戸時代には松江藩母里藩（＝母の里）とよばれていた。
English: There is an anecdote in "Izumo no kuni fudoki" (Records of the Culture and Geography of Izumo Province) that Yasugi-go, Ou-gun was named by Izanami's son, Susanoo.
Japanese: また『出雲国風土記』の意宇郡安来郷はイザナミの息子スサノオが安来と名づけたという逸話が伝わっている。
English: The sacred site of Yomotsu Hirasaka, where Izanagi left Izanami for good, is located near Iya-jinja Shrine in Higashi-izumo-cho, Yatsuka-gun next to Yasugi City.
Japanese: また安来市の隣、八束郡東出雲町の揖屋神社付近にはイザナミとイザナギとが永遠の離別をした黄泉平坂の神蹟がある。
English: Besides Hibanoyama Mountain and Arima, Kumano City which are described in Nihonshoki, there are numerous places throughout Japan where Izanami is said to be buried, especially around the border between Izumo and Hoki.
Japanese: イザナミの墓所の伝承地は、日本神話に記される比婆山や熊野市有馬のほか、雲伯国境を中心として日本各地にある。
English: The Ministry of the Imperial Household recognized Mt. Kanna in Yakumo-mura (present-day Matsue City in Shimane Prefecture) as a 'referable mausoleum,' assuming it to be the most-likely site.
Japanese: 宮内省は八雲村(島根県)（現松江市）の神納山を比定地の中で最も有力として「陵墓参考地」に認定している。
English: The former Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan) designated Mt. Mihaka located in the north of Mt. Sentsu as a 'place said to be the legendary mausoleum of Izanami no Mikoto.'
Japanese: 内務省(日本)は船通山の北にある御墓山を「伊弉冉尊御陵流伝地」に指定している。
English: However, from the 19th century, because of Norinaga MOTOORI's "Kojikiden" (Commentaries on the Kojiki), which successfully interpreted the "Kojiki" for the first time, and the fact that the Izumo-Hoki provincial border area produces the best iron sand for making ironware, Hakuta-cho in Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture was once supported as the likely site, further supported by the confirmation that Mineyama-daigongen appears on an old map of Mori Domain.
Japanese: しかし、近世以降、古事記解読に初めて成功した本居宣長の古事記伝の話と、鉄製品を作る最良の砂鉄の産地ここ雲伯国境地帯であることから、島根県安来市伯太町のものが支持されていた歴史があり、母里藩の古地図にも峯山大権現と記されているのが確認されている。
English: Recently, Biten YASUMOTO, by comparing these theories in terms of philology, has identified it as the one in Yasugi which is the closest to the border between Shimane and Tottori Prefectures.
Japanese: また、最近では安本美典がこれら諸説を文献学的に比較し、島根/鳥取県境に最も近い安来のものを比定している。
English: Wooden ones are often made of plain wood, and others are often made of metal (brass) or white earthenware.
Japanese: 作られる素材としては、木製のものは白木で作られることが多く、そのほか金属製（真鍮）、白い陶器が使われることが多い。
English: The shingu listed here are the main ones, and depending on the shrine (shrine of the ujigami (a guardian god or spirit of a particular place in the Shinto religion) or the shrine of worship) and Sect Shinto school, some things are necessary/unnecessary, so seek the advice of shrines, churches of Sect Shinto school, and shingu stores (butsugu (Buddhist altar fittings) stores carrying shingu).
Japanese: ここであげた神具は主なものであり、神社（氏神の神社や信仰する神社）や教派神道各派によっては必要なもの・不要なものがあることから神社や教派神道各派の教会、神具店（神具を扱う仏具店）に相談する必要がある。
English: They are often hung from the ceiling, high on the wall, or built using the kamoi (a generic term for a head jamb, normally have tracks for sliding doors or partitions), facing south or east.
Japanese: 主に壁の上方に天井からつしたり、鴨居を利用したりして作られ、東向きまたは南向きに作られることが多い。
English: When kamidana cannot be built, it is sometimes built using the top of tansu (chest of drawers).
Japanese: なお、神棚が作れない場合は、箪笥などの上を利用して作られることもある。
English: It is built imitating the architecture of the main building of a Shinto shrine (Honden (main hall)), and is generally made with plain wood.
Japanese: 神社の社殿建築（本殿）を模して作られたもので、通常は白木で造られる。
English: Other than the issha zukuri (one shrine), sansha zukuri (three shrines), and nanasha zukuri (seven shrines), there are Shinmei tsukuri (style of shrine architecture based on that of Ise-jingu Shrine) and hakomiya (box shrine), which looks like a shrine in a box.
Japanese: 一社造り、三社造り、七社造りなどがあるほか、神明造りや箱に入ったような箱宮などもある。
English: In normal homes, issha zukuri or sansha zukuri miyagata are commonly used.
Japanese: 通常の家庭では、一社造りまたは三社造りの宮形が使用されることが多い。
English: Regarding the enshrinement of the talisman (taima (amulet)), in issha zukuri, the talisman of Ise-jingu Shrine (Amaterasu-kotaijingu Shrine) is enshrined at the very front, and then the talisman of the Ujigami-jinja Shrine and the talisman of the shrine routinely worshipped, in this order.
Japanese: 神札（大麻）の祀り方としては、一社造りでは伊勢神宮（天照皇大神宮）の神札（大麻という）を一番前にして氏神神社の神札、日常信仰する神社の神札の順で祀る。
English: In sansha zukuri, the talisman (taima) of Ise-jingu Shrine is enshrined in the center, and the talisman of the Ujigami-jinja Shrine to the right, and the talisman of the shrine routinely worshipped to the left.
Japanese: 三社造りでは中央に伊勢神宮の神札（大麻）を祀り、向かって右に氏神神社の神札、左に日常信仰する神社の神札を祀る。
English: It is a rope made of rice straw with four shide (chain of cut white paper suspended from the straw rope marking off a sacred area of a Shinto shrine) suspended and attached to the upper area of the kamidana.
Japanese: 稲藁で作られた縄に四本の紙垂（しで）を垂らしたもので、神棚の上方に取り付けられる。
English: A bowl for offering water, salt, or sacred wine or sake to the gods, often made of white earthenware.
Japanese: 神に供える水や塩・神酒を入れるための器で、白い陶器で作られることが多い。
English: A flower vase made of earthenware for offering sakaki and a grid made of plain wood or earthenware are often used as a set.
Japanese: 榊を供えるための陶器製の花立と、白木または陶器製の井桁がセットでもいいられることが多い。
English: While kamidana enshrines god, this enshrines the ancestral spirits of households.
Japanese: 神棚が神を祭るものに対し、各家庭の先祖代々の霊を祀るためのものである。
English: Corresponding to ihai (ancestral tablets) in Buddhism, it is considered the yorishiro (object representative of a divine spirit) of the spirit of the deceased, and is generally made of plain wood.
Japanese: 仏教における位牌に相当するもので、故人の霊の依り代となるものとされ、通常白木で造られる。
English: As with ihai, some are made individually for each of the deceased, while other reiji are for several deceased, as with kuridashi-ihai.
Japanese: 位牌と同じく故人一人ひとりに作られるものと、繰り出し位牌のように数人の故人をまてめた霊璽もある。
English: Mainly used in Shinto events (weddings and ground-breaking ceremonies), it is a table made of plain wood.
Japanese: 主に神道における行事（結婚式や地鎮祭など）で使用されるもので、白木で作られた机である。
English: It usually has four legs on each side, and is used as a table to place tamagushi (branch of a sacred tree), food and alcohol offering to the gods, etc.
Japanese: 通常片方に四本ずつ脚をもち、玉串や神饌などを置く台として使用される。
English: Shinboku refers to a tree or a forest as Himorogi (a temporarily erected sacred space or "altar" used as a locus of worship) in Koshinto (ancient Shinto) and an object of worship.
Japanese: 神木（しんぼく）とは、古神道における神籬（ひもろぎ）としての木や森をさし、神体のこと。
English: In general, shinboku refers to a tree as an object of worship or a tree considered to be holy, in the precincts of a shrine or a high-class shrine of Jinja-Shinto; a forest surrounding a shrine to protect the shrine; or a tree that is not cut down.
Japanese: 一般的に神社神道の神社、神宮の境内にある神体としての木や神聖視される木、その周りを囲む鎮守の森や、伐採をしないとされる木を指す。
English: In addition, shinboku refers to a tree which is in a site owned by a shrine or a private land and which has a special history such as an oral tradition.
Japanese: この他、神社の所有地、民間の所有地であて民間伝承などの特別な謂われのある木を指す。
English: Shinboku sometimes refers to trees which are grown by forestation, have naturally grown and which are specially cut down to be used for building a shrine.
Japanese: 神社の造営に当たってその木材となる植林または自生する特別に伐採された木を指す場合もある。
English: The nature worship such as himorogi and iwakura-shinko (large rock worship) is a part of the Koshinto and includes not only trees but also any symbolic object which is located at a border between environments and is treated as an object of worship because of gratitude, fear, and reverence towards gods, life, and nature.
Japanese: 神籬・磐座信仰（いわくらしんこう）という自然崇拝も古神道の一部であり、神や命や自然に対する感謝や畏怖・畏敬から、環境が変わる場所にある象徴的なものを、木に限らず神体とした。
English: Throughout the several thousand year history of Koshinto, forms and styles for shrines as containers and for festival rites as inner substance were established independently or under the influence of foreign religions, and these were further established as jinja (shrine) shinto, etc.
Japanese: この古神道から数千年を経る中で、形式や様式が器としての神社や内面としての祭礼が、外来の宗教の影響または独自に確立され、神社神道などになっていった。
English: Although the place where a god stays has been changed to a sanctuary of shinto called yashiro, most of several ten thousand shrines in Japan were each originally constructed at a place where there was himorogi in Koshinto and, therefore, each of those shrines has shinboku as himorogi or a spiritual stone (rock) as iwakura in its precincts and it is deified.
Japanese: 神の居る場所は、社（やしろ）といわれる神道の神殿に移っていったが、日本に数万ある神社は、もともとは、この古神道における神籬のある場所に建立されたものがほとんどであり、そのことから境内に神籬としての神木や磐座としての霊石（岩）やあるいは碑や塚が存在し祀られている。
English: Koshinto and jinja shinto coexist and are inseparable in some aspects and, therefore, some shrines have no buildings and deify shinboku as objects of worship, and some places are worshiped because of shinboku which have naturally grown even though there are no shrines in such places.
Japanese: また古神道と神社神道は、ある部分では共存し不可分でもあるため、神社によっては社を持たず、神木をそのまま神体として祀っているところもあり、また、神社はなくとも自然そのままにある神木が多くの信仰を集めている場所もある。
English: Kamiyorigi, kanijnboku, etc., are specially treated as yorishiro of a god and are decorated with shimenawa (a holy straw rope).
Japanese: 神依木（かみよりぎ）、勧進木（かんじんぼく）等は神の依り代とされ、しめ縄などで特別扱いされている。
English: In addition, in some cases, trees which are considered special in addition to yorishiro in order to maintain the scenery or make an solemn atmosphere such as jingu cedars in the Ise-jingu Shrine are treated as shinboku.
Japanese: この他、伊勢神宮の神宮スギなど景観維持や、荘厳さを醸し出すために依り代とは別に特別視された木などを神木扱いにしている場合もある。
English: For those who work in mountains, conspicuous trees are temporarily treated as shinboku and deified as yorishiro of mountain gods.
Japanese: 山などで仕事をする物にとって、山の神の依り代として目立つ木を一時的に神木とし、祀る場合もある。
English: Although gohei which is used in rites of jinja shinto and which is made of sakaki tree branches or nagi tree branches is also called himorogi, gohei is originally a simplified yorishiro as a substitute of naturally-grown shinboku in Koshinto.
Japanese: 神社神道における儀式で使われ、サカキやナギによって作られる御幣も神籬というが、もともとは、古神道における自然にある神木の代用としての、簡易の依り代である。
English: Himorogi in Koshinto considered shiniki as a place for a god to stay, or a border to the other world and this world, and was feared and respected.
Japanese: 古神道において神籬は、神の宿る場所としての神域、または常世（とこよ）と現世（うつしよ）の端境と考えれ、恐れ敬った。
English: Shimenawa (a decorated straw rope) is put around himorogi as kekkai to prevent people or things in this world, gods in the other world, or those that invite misfortunes and mishaps for this world from easily coming over and go across, making himorogi off-limits.
Japanese: そして人や現世にあるものや、常世に存在する神やまたは、現世にとって禍や厄災を招くものが、簡単に行き来できないように、結界として注連縄をはり、禁足地とした。
English: At present, in many places, not only shrines, shinboku, and shrine forests but entire islands are considered to be off-limits, such as Okino-shima Island.
Japanese: 現在でも沖ノ島など社や神木や鎮守の森だけでなく島全体が禁足地になっているところも多くある。
English: In some places, a specific time period to invite happiness is provided and rites and festivals to cancel kekkai of shinboku and to invite gods are held.
Japanese: 招福したい時を一定の期間だけ設けて、神木などの結界を解き神を招くという儀式や祭礼を行うところもある。
English: A tree which was donated by a person who is related to a shrine, etc., for some reason has been considered holy and treated as shinboku.
Japanese: 神社等に何らかの関係のある人物が寄進した木などを神聖視し神木として扱われている。
English: Yudate-kagura (Yutate-kagura) is one of Japanese traditional kagura forms.
Japanese: 湯立神楽（ゆだてかぐら/ゆたてかぐら）は日本の伝統的な神楽の形式のひとつ。
English: Yudate-kagura is the general name of religious rites to wish no occurrence of diseases and disasters and rich harvest of five grain crops, etc., and to have the year's fortune told by conducting rites using boiled water which is boiled in a large pot.
Japanese: 釜で湯を煮えたぎらせ、その湯をもちいて神事を執り行い、無病息災や五穀豊穣などを願ったり、その年の吉兆を占う神事の総称である。
English: The same yudate-kagura even differ significantly by shrine and various forms exist like the ones in which a tree branch compared to tamagushi (a sacred sakaki tree branch) is dipped in hot water and the hot water is splashed (Shirahata-jinja Shrine in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, etc.), boiled water is splashed with bear hands as if sweeping (Seihachiman-jinja Shrine (Enzankyo) in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, etc.), the object of worship is dipped in hot water, being rare throughout Japan (Tarumi-jinja Shrine in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture, etc.), etc.
Japanese: 同じ湯立神楽でも神社によってかなり違いがあり、玉串に見立てた枝葉を浸して湯を撒くもの（神奈川県藤沢市白旗神社など）や、素手で煮え湯を払うようにして撒くもの（長野県飯田市正八幡神社(遠山郷)など）、全国的にも珍しいご神体を湯につけるもの（香川県丸亀市垂水神社など）などさまざま。
English: Among them, one form also exists in which rice and holy rice wine are put in hot water in a large pot (Jonan-gu Shrine in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, etc.).
Japanese: なかには釜湯の中に米やお神酒などを入れるものもある（京都府京都市城南宮など）。
English: In some of the shrines along seashores, sea water is used instead of the hot water in a large pot (Yonsha-jinja Shrine in Yokoshibahikari-cho, Chiba Prefecture, etc.).
Japanese: また、海辺の神社では釜湯に海水を使うところもある（千葉県横芝光町四社神社など）。
English: It is said that a person who has drunk the hot water shall suffer no disease and become healthy in some shrines and, therefore, some shrines allow visitors to bring the hot water in their bottles (Ikedai-jinja Shrine in Tenryu-mura, Nagano Prefecture, etc.)
Japanese: また、神社によっては釜湯を飲むと無病息災になるとされているところもあり、ビンなどにつめて持ち帰ることのできるところもある（長野県天龍村池大神社など）。
English: Goryu-shinto is the ho-ryu school (school by a Priestly Imperial Prince) of Shinto handed down among people such as hosshinno (Imperial Princes who became Buddhism priests).
Japanese: 御流神道（ごりゅうしんとう）とは、法親王などに相承される法流の神道。
English: Goryu-shinto originally refers to only ninna-ji-goryu (omuro-goryu) of Ninna-ji Temple started by Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuho, however, later on, from ninna-ji-goryu, Goutain started daikaku-ji-goryu at Daikaku-ji Temple and Priestly Imperial Prince Shukaku started sanpo-in-goryu at Sanpoin at Daigo-ji Temple and, schools further branched from these schools such as jison-in-ryu, itoku-in-ryu, and shinjo-in-ryu were collectively called as goryu-shinto.
Japanese: 本来は覚法法親王を流祖とする仁和寺の仁和寺御流（御室御流）のみを指したが、後に仁和寺御流から後宇多院が大覚寺で大覚寺御流を、守覚法親王が醍醐寺三宝院で三宝院御流を創始し、更にこれらの流派から分かれた慈尊院流・威徳寺流・真乗院流などを総称して御流神道と称した。
English: It is considered that goryu-shinto was established from the end of Heian period to Kamakura period, and goryu-shinto was handed down with various kancho ceremonies (a type of Buddhism ceremony) and, in Muromachi period, goryu-shinto kagyohosoku (training rules) based on esoteric Buddhism courtesy was established and, at the start of Edo period, the format of inshin (a certificate certifying handing down of the secrets in esoteric Buddhism) was completed for 80 inshin and koketsu (the secrets orally handed down) called goryu-shinto-koketsu was also established.
Japanese: 平安時代末期から鎌倉時代にかけて成立したと考えられ、様々な灌頂儀式とともに伝承され、室町時代には密教的儀礼に基づいた御流神道加行法則が成立し、江戸時代初期には八十通印信の印信形式を整え、御流神道口決と呼ばれる口決も成立した。
English: Although goryu-shinto was dissolved under the order to separate Shintoism and Buddhism from each other in the Meiji Restoration, traces of inshin and koketsu of goryu-shinto still remain in esoteric Buddhism temples at present.
Japanese: だが、明治維新の神仏分離令によって解体させられたが、今日でも密教寺院にその印信・口決の名残を残している。
English: According to "Yamato-hime no mikoto seiki" (one of the "Shito Gobusho" (five-volume apologia of Shinto religion)), Seoritsu-hime is another name for Yasomagatsuhi no kami, and it is recorded that Seoritsu-hime is the enshrined deity in Aramatsuri no miya Shrine of the associated shrine of the Inner Shrine of Ise-jingu Shrine.
Japanese: 『倭姫命世記』では八十禍津日神の別名とされ、伊勢神宮内宮の別宮の荒祭宮祭神は、瀬織津姫であることが記されている。
English: Hirota-jinja Shrine in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, which is the taisha (grand shrine) from which the geographical name Nishinomiya was derived, regards Amaterasu Omikami Aramitama as its main enshrined deity; but the written guarantee of origin in prewar times clearly indicated Seoritsu-hime as the main enshrined deity.
Japanese: 兵庫県西宮市、西宮の地名由来の大社である広田神社は天照大神荒御魂を主祭神としているが、戦前の由緒書きには、瀬織津姫を主祭神とすることが明確に記されていた。
English: While it seems that Seoritsu-hime was purposely deleted in the "Kiki" (refers to the "Kojiki" (Records of Ancient Matters) and "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan)) and other documents that follow, her name was clearly indicated in the norito (Shinto ritual prayer, congratulatory address) for oharae (the great purification); as such, Seoritsu-hime has long been a mysterious god among people involved in Shinto religion.
Japanese: 『記紀』からは意図的して徹底的に抹消されたようであり、一方大祓祝詞にはその名が記されているため、神道関係者の間でも長年、謎の神とされてきた。
English: It is also considered that the recognition of Amaterasu Omikami as a female god is actually the result of Seoritsu-hime being deleted and its syncretization with Amaterasu Omikami.
Japanese: 天照大神が女神として認識されているのも、実は瀬織津姫を抹消し、天照大神と習合したがゆえと考えられる。
English: According to the description of Hotsuma (or Hotsumatsutae), a theory can be established that when Shinto shrines of the same scale are placed in parallel with one another such as in the cases of Takihara no miya Shrine in Mie Prefecture, and Hinokuma-jingu Shrine and Kunikakasu-jingu Shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, the purpose may actually be to worship Amaterasu Omikami and Seoritsu-hime.
Japanese: ホツマの記述に従えば、三重県の滝原の宮や、和歌山県の日前・国懸宮におけるように同一境内に同じ規模の社殿が並列されているのは、実は天照大神と瀬織津姫を祀るものではないかと思われる節もある。
English: During the imperial reign of FUJIWARA no Fuhito, or Emperor Jito, change in shake (family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis) suddenly took place at Ise-jingu Shrine.
Japanese: 藤原不比等、持統天皇の御世に伊勢神宮では、突然、社家の変更が実行された。
English: Originally, Watarai clan served in both the Inner Shrine and Outer Shrine of Ise-jingu Shrine, but Arakida clan of the Nakatomi lineage of Fujiwara clan became new shake for the Inner Shrine, and as the result, Watarai clan became the shake for the Outer Shrine only.
Japanese: 元は、内宮、外宮ともに度会氏が担っていたのだが、内宮は藤原氏、中臣氏系の荒木田氏が新たな社家となり、その結果、渡会氏は外宮のみの社家となった。
English: What can be assumed here is the possibility that the deity enshrined in the Inner Shrine of Ise was changed.
Japanese: ここで考えられるのは、伊勢神宮内宮祭神の変更がなされた可能性である。
English: In the Ise Shinto, or a school of Shinto thought established by Watarai clan who were the Shinto priests for the Outer Shrine and were prosperous during the Kamakura period, it became clear that Seoritsu-hime was the god of the Aramatsuri-no-miya Shrine of the Inner Shrine.
Japanese: 瀬織津姫は鎌倉期に興った外宮神官の渡会氏による伊勢神道において、内宮の荒祭宮の神であることが明らかにされた。
English: According to the majority of the traditional theories, it is viewed that Ise Shinto was created as the result of Watarai clan, who sought private interests, asserting that the status of the deity enshrined in the Outer Shrine was above that of the Inner Shrine.
Japanese: 伊勢神道は、従来の学説では、外宮神官が、外宮祭神の格を内宮祭神より上であるとして、渡会氏が私的な利害をかけて主張したものである、という見方が大勢を占めているようである。
English: However, if this viewpoint were true, then the intention of Watarai clan asserting that Aramitama of Amaterasu Omikami, the deity enshrined in the Aramatsuri-no-miya Shrine of the Inner Shrine, is Seoritsu-hime, becomes completely unexplainable.
Japanese: しかしながら、この見解に従った場合、内宮荒祭宮の祭神、天照大神荒御魂を瀬織津姫である、と渡会氏が主張することの真意が何か、はまったく不明である。
English: As such, an assumption can be established that an attempt was made to correct the change in the enshrined deity in Aramatsuri-no-miya Shrine since the Fujiwara lineage replaced the Watarai clan, who originally served in the religious services of the Inner Shrine as well.
Japanese: このことから、元々内宮の祭祀をもつかさどっていた渡会氏が、藤原氏系に取って代わられて以降、荒祭宮の祭神名が変更されていることを訂正しようとしたものではないかという推測が成り立つ。
English: That the enshrined deity was changed, and that the shrine visit by successive emperors was virtually prohibited, occurring simultaneously suggests that the two events are greatly related.
Japanese: 祭神変更の事実と、同時に歴代天皇の参宮が、事実上禁止されたこととは大いに関連することが考えられる。
English: Since, before these two events, there is the possibility of Seoritsu-hime being worshiped together in shrines where Amaterasu Omikami was worshiped, not only in the Inner Shrine of Ise-jingu-Shrine but across the country, it can be assumed that someone of the Fujiwara lineage perhaps deleted Seoritsu-hime as a deity to be enshrined from shrines nationwide.
Japanese: それ以前においては、内宮に限らず全国の天照大神を祀る神社で瀬織津姫も一対となって祀られていた可能性があり、おそらく藤原氏系の人物が全国の神社から祭神瀬織津姫を抹消したのではないだろうか。