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The last introduction of the origin of place name is Hani-yasu. Hani signifies clay and Yasu peace in ancient Japanese respectively. Because the Sumera-mikoto in September of the last year had made Oto-ukashi and Shiine-tu-hiko bring clay of Mt. Kagu-yama, baked sacred many saucers, held a service for the heavenly and earthy gods after purifying himself in the river and established a peace in this country.
The editor of the Chronicles of Japan, moreover, introduced other origins of place names with regards to the eastern expedition of the Sumera-mikoto. He described that the place where the soldiers of the Sumera-mikoto yelled war cries came to called Take-da, the place where they built a fortress Ki-da and the place where killed enemies rested their heads on their own arms as pillows Tura-maki-ta. Take means “yelling,” Ki “fortress,” Tura “head” and Maki “pillow” in ancient Japanese respectively.
ごめんね！今日も、ちゃぽ、とって～も忙しくて具ログ更新できなかったんだ。
On the other hand, someone said that in old times the Sumera-mikoto went on the warpath after eating an offering and defeated his enemy at Nishikata where Isoki-no-yaso-takeru had concentrated his soldiers. Because the word, concentration, pronounced “iwami” in old Japanese, the place came to called Iware after this victory.
ごめんね！今日はとって～も忙しくて、ブログが更新できなかったんだ。
Firstly, he [the editor of the Chronicles of Japan] introduced two theories which explained the origin of the name of Iware. One said that though that place had been called Katai or Katatachi, its name was changed to Iware, because the royal army defeated the enemy and there was flooded with the soldiers. According to this theory, Iware means overflowing in old Japanese.
Furthermore, in the village of Taka-owari, there were the resisters called Tuti-gumo, whose bodies were short and the limbs were long. They resembled with Shujyu, who were an unidentified ancient tribe. The soldiers of the Sumera-mikoto set a net of vines, in which they caught, and slew them. The name of the village was changed from Taka-owari to Kazuraki, because vine tree was called Kazura in Japanese.
Two of these three powers had names which included Hafuri. Hahuri has signified a priest of Shintoism since the ancient age of Japan, even though at present this title came to be nearly disused except several shrines, for example Suwa shrine, Ooyamatumi shrine and Aso shrine. The existence of Hahuris, however, suggests that there would have been some systems of theocracy among ancient small polities in those days.
The first power was Niiki-tobe, a female chief, who had dominated over Hata-no-okazaki in Soho-no-Agata. The second one was Kose-no-hafuri at Wani-no-sakashita and the third one I-no-hafuri at Nagara-no-okazaki in Hosomi. The Sumera-mikoto dispatched his corps and annihilated them.
