Research source

Ama-terasu, the Sun Goddess, climbs the, 23; Tsuki-yumi, the Moon God, also climbs the, 23 Lady of Mercy

Date of account: Traditional material presented in a work published 1913
Source: Myths & Legends of Japan
Reference: Myths & Legends of Japan · selected passage 196
Rights: public_domain
Language: English retelling of Japanese traditions
Translation: F. Hadland Davis
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

Published source text

Read the available text below. Archive transcriptions may contain OCR errors; later context is labelled separately. A recorded claim is not a finding that it happened.

Source passage

Source text · mention only

Ama-terasu, the Sun Goddess, climbs the, 23; Tsuki-yumi, the Moon God, also climbs the, 23 Lady of Mercy. Kwannon called the, 202 Land of Endless Plenty. Shikaiya Wasōbiōye visits the, 375 "Land, The Evergreen." Appears in the Japanese ballad "The Fisher Boy Urashima" as the Dragon Palace, 324 Land of the Followers of the Antique. Shikaiya Wasōbiōye visits the, 375 Land of Giants. Shikaiya Wasōbiōye visits the, 375 Land of the Morning Calm. Chosen, the old name for Korea, 328 Land of Paradoxes. Shikaiya Wasōbiōye visits the, 375 Land of Perfect Happiness. The infant Emperor, Antoku Tenno, taken to, 300 Land of Shams. Shikaiya Wasōbiōye visits the, 375 Laughter, God of. _See_ Hotei, 211-213 Legend-s. Butterfly, 216-219; from _The Diary of a Convolvulus_, 244-249; Thunder, 250-254; of Magical Animals 255-275; the _Kojiki_ ("The White Hare of Inaba"), 255-260; the three mystic Apes figure in, 272; birds in, 276-281; of dragon-flies, 282; of fire flies, 285-289; of the tea-plant, 297-299; of the Weird, 300-304; of the sea, 323-341; of Urashima, 323; Japanese superstitions the source of, 342; of the sea monster _Shōjō_, 359-360; miscellaneous, 370-379 Lightning, The Goddess of, 251 Lights, Miraculous.

Historical context

Contextual commentary · mention only

This is a passage from a historical religious or interpretive text. Its genre, manuscript history, translation and place within its own tradition are part of the evidence and must remain visible.

Modern context

Contextual commentary · mention only

Lattice can compare the passage's descriptive features with later reports, but resemblance does not turn a vision, angel, mythic creature or sacred narrative into a modern incident report.

Investigate related details with Anomaly Graph’s account-based search, or read how matching and provenance work.