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Nihongi

( 720 ) Commentary by Kristina Burhmann, University of Southern California

Glossary

In that is, “yin,” representing dark, damp, and female
Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto Japan’s most famous deities; producers of the nation’s islands
leech-child a failure in the production of Japanese islands that is sent adrift in a boat
viz. an abbreviation of the Latin word videlicet, meaning “namely” or “as follows”
Yo that is, “yang,” representing bright, dry, and male
Yomi the netherworld or land of the dead

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Shinto deity (Yale University Art Gallery)

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