A recent Japanese historian, Yuuko Kuranishi, formulates a hypothesis explaining the mysterious difference on names of deities between in The Chronicle of Japan and in The Kojiki. She pays attention to the fact that there were three powerful tribe states in the age of Yayoi, Na-no-kuni, Tumo-koku and Kuna-koku. According to her theory, The Chronicle of Japan would be compiled mainly based on documents transmitted from Na-no-kuni or Kuna-koku which were located in the Kyusyu region at least in the first stage, while the Kojiki would be edited standing for Tumo-koku, pre-Izumo, which was in the Sun-in region or that Kuna-koku. In the age of Yayoi, these three had struggled for supremacy for a long time each other, as it were a triangular fight.
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