Suyetsumimi

• • Period: Legendary Period
  • Occupation: –
  • Family: Ikutamayoribime (daughter)
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Suyetsumimi

Suyetsumimi was the father of Ikutamayoribime.¹²³

When his daughter became pregnant he thought she had conceived by herself, however, she said she had not.

So they devised a way to find out who the father was. He instructed her to sprinkle red earth infront of the couch and pass a skien of hemp through a needle and to piece the skirt of a garment.

In the morning the needle pointed towards the way the kami had entered and left the home. And so following the needle they ended up on Mount Miwa finding Ōkuninushi there.²³

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.

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