The husband dragged an enormous rock along the ground. He set it at the middle of the border, Yomotsu-hira-slope黄泉平坂. The wife was behind the rock. He said, “You and I are not we any longer.”
She said, “My dear heart, you are cruel. So I will kill your people 1000 every day.”
He said, “My beloved, if you will do such atrocity, I will have my people build 1500 maternity sheds every day and babies will be born.”
To be continued,
a story from Kojiki=古事記, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712),
Photo, a copy of Kojiki, national treasure, in Shimpuku-Temple
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