Myths from the Hizen Fudoki

The Hizen-no-Kuni Fudoki is a gazetteer of the province of Hizen, covering much of modern Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures, in the early eighth century. The surviving text is quite short, but there are many references to kami, including early examples of customs that became important later, myths that have interesting parallels to other surviving tales, and brief references that suggest that many legends have been lost.

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