Title The History of Okinoshima

  • Fukuoka
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
Medium/Media of Use:
Web Page
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Preservation and Utilization Council of "Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region"
Associated Address:
Munakata-shi , Fukuoka

祭祀の歴史

日本の初期の歴史に関する詳細な記録はありません。最古の歴史書・古事記と日本書紀は8世紀前半に編纂されました。これらの記録には宗像氏が沖ノ島や大島の御嶽山や辺津宮境内の高宮西祭場で宗像三女神のために祭祀を行っていたことが記されています。これらの祭祀は、沖ノ島での祭祀が始まった4世紀から大半の祭祀が本土に移された9世紀にかけて行われました。


これらの祭祀が最初に行われていた当時、仏教がインドから中国に伝播しましたが、日本にはまだ伝わっていませんでした。これらの祭祀の終焉期には、日本最古の最も崇敬された神社である三重県の伊勢神宮と島根県の出雲大社が建立され、信仰は野外空間から祭祀のために建てられたより恒久的な建造物へと移行しました。


The History of Okinoshima

We do not have extensive records of Japan’s early history. The oldest written chronicles, the Kojiki and the Nihon shoki, were compiled in the early eighth century. These records mention that the Munakata family performed rituals for the Three Female Deities of Munakata at sites on Okinoshima, at Mt. Mitake on Oshima, and at Takamiya Saijo on the grounds of Hetsu-miya. These rituals took place from the fourth century when rituals started on Okinoshima, to the ninth century, when most rituals were transferred to the mainland.


When these rituals were first being performed, Buddhism had arrived in China from India, but had not yet been introduced in Japan. Toward the end of the period of these rituals, Ise Jingu in Mie Prefecture and Izumo Taisha in Shimane Prefecture, Japan’s oldest and most revered Shinto shrines were built, and worship had mostly moved from outdoor spaces to more permanent structures built for ritual purposes.


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