enduring-as-rock

Updated: May 15, 2025

He sent with her a plentiful dower many "tables"* of merchandise but he sent also her elder sister, Enduring-as-Rock, a maiden so ill favoured that Ninigi dismissed her with disgust, thus provoking the curse of the Kami of mountains, who declared that had his elder daughter been welcomed, the lives of the heavenly sovereigns would have been as long as her name suggested, but that since she had been treated with contumely, their span of existence would be comparatively short.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era