Onogoroshima

, according to the mythical account of the Kojiki, was created when the divine couple Izanagi, and Izanami churned the sea with a heavenly spear from their vantage point on the floating bridge of heavenKurano, "Kojiki", page 53] . The name probably signified "self-curdling island". It is mentioned but twice in the Kojiki, at ch.3:3 and ch.111:32 (Philippi's translation, p,49,p.306)

In his Kojiki-den, a ground-breaking commentary on the Kojiki, the great Kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga asserted that it referred to one of the small islands northwest or southwest of Awajishima. However, attempts to identify places in mythical cosmology with known sites in a real country's topography remain unconvincing.

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References

*Donald L.Philippi tr. "Kojiki", Princeton University Press, Tokyo University Press,1969
* cite book
last = Kurano
first = Kenji
authorlink =
coauthors = Yūkichi Takeda
title = Kojiki, Norito
series = Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei
publisher = Iwanami Shoten
year = 1958
location = Tōkyō
language = Japanese
id = ISBN 4-00-060001-X