
Deity
Mikenu-no-Mikoto
Mikenu-no-Mikoto is a deity name attested in the Ugayafukiaezu genealogy of Kojiki (712 CE), one of the four children including the future Emperor Jimmu.
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Mikenu-no-Mikoto is a deity name attested in the Ugayafukiaezu genealogy of Kojiki (712 CE), one of the four children with Jimmu, said to have crossed to Tokoyo-no-Kuni.
Description
Mikenu-no-Mikoto is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the Ugayafukiaezu genealogical passage in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume, where the four children of Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto and Tamayori-Hime-no-Mikoto are listed: Itsuse-no-Mikoto, Inahi-no-Mikoto, Mikenu-no-Mikoto and Wakamikenu-no-Mikoto. Mikenu is recorded as having crossed over the waves to Tokoyo-no-Kuni, the eternal land. The database preserves the name with its scene reference. IZANORA registers the entry as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.
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Sources
御毛沼命 みけぬのみこと
Primary source國學院大學 古典文化学事業「神名データベース」御毛沼命。
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/mikenunomikoto/三毛入野命 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
御毛沼命(ミケヌ)について、ウガヤフキアエズと玉依姫の子・神武天皇の兄としての位置、東征中の常世国渡りと高千穂帰還の二つの伝承、高千穂神社の祭祀を整理する。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B%E5%85%A5%E9%87%8E%E5%91%BD
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