kagu

Updated: May 2, 2025

The Records say that after Izanami's death in giving birth to the Kami of fire, she was buried at Mount Kagu on the confines of Izumo and Hoki. *In the language of ancient Japan ne meant "mountain," and Ne-no-Kuni signified simply "Land of Mountains."

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

An appeal was accordingly made for divine assistance by organizing a public festival of worship, the vessels employed eighty platters and as many jars being made by the hands of the prince himself with clay obtained from Mount Kagu in Yamato.* Several minor arrangements followed, and finally swords were crossed with the army of Nagasune, who had inflicted a defeat on the invaders on the occasion of their first landing at Kusaka, when Prince Itsuse received a mortal wound.

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