Peregrination of Yamato-hime-no-Mikoto

The Nihon Shoki, Book Six, Suinin-tennō chronicle, year 25, records that the imperial gods's enshrinement was transferred from Princess Toyosukiiri-hime to Princess Yamato-hime, who set out to seek a permanent seat for Amaterasu Omikami. Beginning at Sasahata in Uda, she passed through Iga, Ōmi, Mino, and Owari before entering Ise Province. At the upper reaches of the Isuzu River she received the oracle: "This land of Ise, where the winds of the gods blow, is the land to which the waves of Tokoyo return; it is a fair land of the side-countries, and here I wish to dwell." She then founded the Naikū of Ise Jingu. The medieval Shinto text Yamato-hime no Mikoto Seiki organizes the route into a systematic narrative.

The narrative proceeds through the transfer from Toyosukiiri-hime, the journey to Sasahata in Uda, the route through the central provinces, the entry into Ise, the oracle at Isuzu River, and the founding of the Naikū. The motoise tradition is built around the stages of this route.

The Naikū of Ise Jingu in Ise, Mie Prefecture. The Yamato-hime no Miya, a Betsugū of Ise Jingu, was founded in Taishō 12 (1923). Sites in Uda (Nara), Kōka (Shiga), Kamo District (Gifu), and Nagoya (Aichi) preserve "motoise" traditions associated with stages of the journey.

Nihon Shoki, Book Six, Suinin-tennō chronicle (720). Yamato-hime no Mikoto Seiki (purportedly Jingo-keiun 2 / 768, in fact compiled in the mid-Kamakura period as one of the Shintō Gobusho).