This story telling the origin in the mythological age reflects on the ritual of the coronation ceremony of the Tennow, so called Daijyou-sai. Following ancient conventions, the Tennow has been to wear something like a wrapper called matoko-ou-busuma, to succeed the soul of Ninigi-no-mikoto and to be a living deity, though in 1946 Showa Tennow denied his absolute authority and inerrability of the divinity in the sense of the parting from militarism founded on the independence of the supreme command of the Tennow prescribed in the Meiji Constitution. Japanese as well as Shintoists has regarded the Tennow as an apotheosized person who has succeeded to the soul of Ninigi-no-mikoto who descended from the Heaven, not as God Almighty in monotheism.
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