Yashiro Island

• • Coordinates: 33°55′N 132°14′E
  • Region: Chugoku Region
  • Prefecture: Yamaguchi Prefecture

Yashiro Island

Yashiro Island is an island often attributed to being Ōshima island in the kojiki and Ohoshima in the nihongi.

Ōshima (大島 – Great Isle) was, according to the kojiki, the third island born after the Great Land of Eightfold Isles, inhabited by the kami Ōtamaruwake.¹

The nihongi names this island as Ohoshima stating it to have been the sixth island of the Grand Land of Eightfold Isles to have been created.²

Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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