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Definition of Ninigi
1. Noun. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninigi
Literary usage of Ninigi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japan: Its History, Traditions, and Religions: With the Narrative of a Visit by Edward James Reed (1880)
"... the sun-goddess—Origin of the Divine Insignia of the Imperial
Power —ninigi-uo-mikoto, the " Sovran Grandchild "—His descent by the Floating
Bridge of ..."
2. A Study of the Origin of the Japanese State by Seigo Takahashi (1917)
"On the road, ninigi and his party were met by an earthly Kami from Ise named ...
ninigi was delighted, saying, "This place is opposite to the land of Kara ..."
3. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"They hold that when the Sun goddess handed the three sacred objects to ninigi —
generally called Tenson, or "heavenly grandchild" — she ordained that the ..."
4. Romance of Old Japan by Elizabeth Williams Champney, Frère Champney (1917)
"So content was ninigi with the faithful services of the ... Thereafter ninigi
bethought himself of his own lonely and unromantic lot, when on a day as he ..."
5. Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan by William George Aston (1907)
"Meanwhile the Sun-Goddess became desirous of establishing the rule of her own
grandchild ninigi, son of Masaya a katsu, in Japan. ..."
6. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"Under his guidance ninigi passed to Takachiho Mountain in Hyuga, ... ninigi took
to wife the daughter of a terrestrial deity, and by her had two sons, ..."
7. The New America and the Far East: A Picturesque and Historic Description of by George Waldo Browne, Henry Cabot Lodge, Joseph Wheeler, Kogoro Takahira, John Davis Long, Leonard Wood, Charles Herbert Allen (1907)
"ninigi, Prince Generous-Giver, to go at once to the earth and begin his reign,
... Prince ninigi looked on the vast pine forests, the reed plains and the ..."
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