Word: jimmu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
...three sanctuaries of the Imperial palace. Then Prince Kimiteru Sanjo, court ritualist, took a full day at the Ise shrine, notifying the spirits of the outer shrine in the morning, the inner shrine in the afternoon. Count Kinto Muromachi passed the word to Hirohito's first Imperial ancestor, Jimmu, great-great-grandfather Ninko, greatgrandfather Komei and grandfather Meiji...
Later, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Prince Rice-Plenty, to govern the Earth. In good time, the Sun Goddess' great-great-grandson, Jimmu, became Japan's first emperor. He commanded his descendants to bring all the eight corners of the universe under the one roof of Japan...
Thus, in the year 660 B.C. began the divine dynasty whose 124th scion is the Emperor Hirohito, the Magnanimous-Exalted, the Sublime Majesty, the Imperial Son of Heaven of Dai Nippon (Great Japan), in whose reign the Japanese nation was fated to attempt to carry out the Emperor Jimmu's command...
...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...