Summer vacation 3

-The sacred sword- Part 2

Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi (草薙神剣)

After leaving the eel diner, we walked toward the main gate of Atsuta Jingū. Most of the visitors here were bowing before entering the red torii gate. Those who were leaving were also sincerely bowing after the torii gate facing back towards the main shrine. I was very impressed. Even at Ise Jingū, I don’t see so many visitors having such good manners.

One of my family members said, “are these people all readers of your blog?”  And we all laughed.  I said “no, I don’t think so…”  But still it was wonderful to see that the local people were doing this naturally. It was very nice to know that Atsuta Jingū had been so well taken cared from the old days until today.

I sent my gratitude at the newly rebuilt honden main shrine. Then I was drawn to go to the right side of the honden.  The newly built shrine was designed by a modern architect. It was an innovative design, a combination of traditional and modern style. They used massive amount of thick kusamaki wood blocks from Canada.  I went around the ceremonial ground to the back where I found a rebuilt small shrine. It was a raised-floor construction. And I felt a very strong divine energy from the inside. The strong magnetic energy was coming from the bottom of the construction.

When I went down the small path from the small shrine, there was an explanation written on the board. It said that this small shrine was where the sacred sword (Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi ) was enshrined until the Meiji era.

Now I understood why I was feeling that strong energy. I went back to the small doyōden shrine. The divine magnetic energy remained for over hundred of years. This tells how powerful the energy of the sacred sword is.

My psychic power was drawn to the ground under the small shrine. When I focused to the underground, a story came to me about the sacred sword.

Some researcher might claim that the sacred Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi sword is one of the steel Ama-no-mura-kumo-no-tsurugi sword brought by a tribe from overseas, the famous mythology of Yamata-no-orochi. It is said that there were eight of these steel sacred swords.

My psychic reading says that these two swords are a different swords. From my understanding, the Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi sword is made out of collected gold made by a foreign tribe. They were trying to make a treasure sword and they were still in the process of finishing. While they were in the middle of the process, Susanoo in a human figure comes to make a surprise attack. That is why the tip of the sword was in an irregular shape. It never got finished.

Because it was made out of precious gold, it was stored with great care. But I think the gold was not pure and included mercury. That is why in my psychic eyes it looks more like platinum.

According to the old document, this sacred sword was triple boxed. The outside was a wooden box, the middle was a stone box and the inside box was made out of camphor wood. In between the boxes, red clay was filled. I sense that the red clay is shusha (朱砂) that includes mercury in the grain. I sense that it is the same mercury used in the refining process of the sword. Filling the clay in between the boxes is to prevent from burning in case of fire.

If you could see the Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi for real, I’m sure it will be shinning. It’s made out of gold after all. But it wasn’t really a sacred sword in the beginning. It was cared a great deal because it was made out of gold. And because it was gold, it became one of the tools in the Shinto ceremony. That is how I sense.  When the capital, Yamataikoku moved from Hakusan to Nara of today, the generations of Queen Himiko used this sword as a sacred tool in the ceremonies. Therefore, the sword accumulated the divine energy over a long period. The Queen Himiko of the later days, Yamato-hime was the most superior of all.  And she was the one who brought this sword to Ise Jingū.

So where is this sacred Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi sword today?

The hint lays on the fact that it was at the small shrine in Atusta Jingū until end of Meiji era. It would be natural for Emperor Meiji to be interested in the Three Sacred Treasures.

Even after loosing the world war, Japan has risen again and became one of the strongest economical influences of the world. This is like a miracle. I believe there were powers of kami behind this success. The spirit of Emperor Meiji is also helping. He is moving these Three Sacred Treasures and putting them together. This is igniting a divine power and helping the development of the nation. Now the two out of three is already in one place. When and where would the three come together? When the three come together, it will ignite another new power to this nation.  I will tell you about it when the right time comes.

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.

Summer Vacation 2 - The sacred sword

- Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi (草薙神剣)

After visiting Ise Jingu, we drove to Atsuta Jingu in Nagoya. The highway run smoothly and we were able to enjoy the drive. As we got close just around one traffic light before reaching the shrine, my wife said she feels a tingling sensation on her right finger. This signifies that this shrine holds a vital divine energy. It happens when the kami residing at the shrine is welcoming the visitor and creating a spiritual connection. When this happens, there is no doubt that we are permitted to enter the shrine. I felt the tingling on my back already when we were getting off the highway. When you are a beginner in feeling these sensations, you will feel them on your fingers. As you develop your oneness with nature, you will start to feel with your whole body. Even if you have worked on your spirituality for many decades, still there are only few who can feel this sensation. Today, someone such as my wife who has only worked on sending gratitude towards ancestral spirits and kami can feel this. It shows the time is changing.

It was around 1pm. We reached the parking lot of the main entrance of the shrine. My family told me that there is a famous unagi (eel) restaurant near by and they wanted to have lunch there. According to a magazine, it was very hard to get a seat for its popularity. We found the restaurant. It was very close to the main gate of Atsuta Jingu. The place looked already full but we found just enough seats at the counter table. And we ordered the famous dish “Hitsumabishi.”  There is an eel diner in front of Ise Jingu and there was one here too. While I was waiting for the order, I was thinking about the coincidence.

Eels are spiritual entities that praise the sun. The fertilization of the eel is limited to a certain area and still a mystery to how it occurs. The fry of an eel is very much like the shape of a sperm of a man. I felt that the azoospermia and the amount of existing fries of the eels might be interrelated. The point is that I feel the creatures on this planet Earth are interrelated in many ways and everything is connected in some way. While I was in my imaginative world, the hitsumabushi dish was served. We had no idea how to eat it.  We kind of peaked the lady sitting next to us who was eating the same dish.









First time, you put the rice and the cooked eel from the rice tub into your rice bowl. The second time, you do the same and also pour the soup into the rice bowl. It was so hot that day I didn’t really have an appetite but once I pour the soup it was easier to consume. 

As I was serving my third bowl of rice with the shamoji spatula I sensed something. It was a revelation about the Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi (the sword from the legendry Three Sacred Treasures.). The shamoji spatula had turned into a sacred sword through my psychic vision.

The tip of the sword is wavy like flower petals. The rod is about 60cm long and the middle is swollen. The old documents tells that this sword looks like a shape of a leaf of a shobu (sweet flag.) But I sense it is the petals and not the leaf.

When I envisioned this shape in my head, it linked to one information. It was a painting of a human-like figure of a kami called Kunitokotachi-no-mikoto drawn by Onizaburo Deguchi from Oomotokyo sect.   

I sense that this was drawn when Onizaburo was staying at Izumo Daijingu in Kyoto. It was a full moon night and he witnessed this figure on the sacred mountain behind the main shrine. In this painting, the figure holds a very unusual sword just like the one I described. So what is the true nature of this Kusanagi-no-mitsurugi sword ? 

 (to be continued…)

Ikashite-itadaite arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

I would like to spread the Gratitude Awareness towards ancestral spirits and everything around us so 5% of the world population will start acting on it on a daily basis.