kumanari-mine

Updated: July 6, 2026

The "Korea" here spoken of is the present Kimhai in Kyongsan-do. It is further recorded that Susanoo lived for a time at Kumanari-mine, which is the present Kongju. Again, a Japanese book, compiled in the tenth century A.D., enumerates six shrines in the province of Izumo which were called Kara-kuni Itate Jinja, or shrine of Itakeru of Korea.

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