The pond that was then managed by Maro later came to be known as Shi'ii-no-ike which is today’s Tenryū-no-mitarashi ( below) located within Tenryūzan-atago Shrine. Just what sort of deities refuses to obey the command of Imperial mandate?” Seeing that Yatsu-no-kami ignored his complaints, Maro summoned his subordinates and instructed: “Go through every grass and bushes and kill all creatures that dwells within.” Alas, Yatsu-no-kami were driven out from the pond and went to hiding. After patiently waiting for them to leave, Maro finally had enough and shouted: “I’m trying to reconstruct this pond in order to improve the life of local people. Though the Yatsu-no-kami yet again disrupted the construction by loitering around the pond where the water for the rice fields was stored as they relaxed on the nearby chinquapin tree branches.
There, Maro launched a project to construct an embarkment to better manage the water flow in the valley. 7th century AC) came to rule Hitachi-no-kuni (modern day most of Ibaraki Prefecture) as a statecraft ruler dispatched by Emperor Kōtoku thus, Matachi’s rice fields and the land around it naturally became his property. This confrontation with Yatsu-no-kami, however, didn’t end with Matachi.Īfter many years later, another noble by the name of Mibu-no-Maro (circa Mid. twenty-four acres large rice field and a shrine was built to honor Yatsu-no-kami which is today’s Tenryūzan-atago Shrine ( below) in Namegata City. For we shall venerate and worship you forever, I ask you all to not seek vengeance and harm us.”Īlas, Matachi successfully established an approx. Tenryū saying: “Anywhere beyond this point is your territory while anywhere before where I stand is our territory for humans. As Matachi literally beat the serpent deities into retreat, he drove the same stick he used as weapon through a mound to mark the boundary separating Yatsu-no-kami’s and human’s domain at the entrance of Mt. Angered, he armed himself with a stick and armor then charged towards Yatsu-no-kami. Yatsu-no-kami didn’t approve of this landscaping project and began harassing Matachi.
In the text, Yatsu-no-kami were fearsome deities that a person’s entire family would die out just from looking at them, but it turned out that this wasn’t the case for the two characters in this legend who promptly defeated them.įirst was Yahazu-no-Matachi (circa 6th century AC) ( below) who was the noble of ancient Namegata that established new rice fields in the West through reclamation of the plateau near the valley. According to “Hitachi-no-kunifudoki” (721), Yatsu-no-kami are said to be deities of snake with a pair of horn growing from their head that are native to today’s Rokkō area especially within Namegata City (Ibaraki Prefecture). Yatsu-/Yato-no-kami ( above) are one of the many serpent deities in Japanese mythology.
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