Inori no Mori祈りの杜working title

Read, reflect, pray

Homage to Tatsuta’s wind kami

拝竜田風神詞たつたのかぜのかみをおがむことば

A prayer honoring the wind kami at Tatsuta and asking that daily wishes be received and life remain peaceful.

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This site’s English rendering of the Japanese meaning guide, aligned with this edition. It is separate from the source words for recitation and is not an official liturgy. Sacred sounds are explained where possible, not given speculative literal translations. Historical beliefs, royal authority, illness and protection claims belong to the text; they are not present-day judgments, medical advice or guarantees of results.

Dwelling in the sanctuary whose great pillars stand firm at Tatsuta’s Tatsuno, Heguri District, Yamato Province:

Ame-no-Mihashira and Kuni-no-Mihashira,

the kami also named Shinatsuhiko and Shinatsuhime—before you,

with deep respect, I offer distant homage.

If I have committed a fault,

please reconsider and hear it anew, and forgive it.

Blow away the calamities wrought by harmful kami,

and let me live long in health, enduring like a firm and unchanging rock.

The prayers I offer to the heavenly and earthly kami,

day after day,

carry ever higher with the divine wind, like the raised ears of a running horse,

The image of a horse raising its ears is connected contextually with ‘ever higher.’

delivering them to the kami and granting your blessing:

with reverence, I ask this.

Source text and reading aid

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本文(ほんぶん)

大和国(おほやまとのくに)平群郡(へぐりのこほり)龍田(たつた)の立野(たちぬ)に大宮柱(おほみやばしら)太敷立(ふとしきたて)て鎮座坐(しづまりま)す、

ohoyamatonokuni hegurinokohori tatsutano tachinuni ohomiyabashira futoshikitatete shizumarimasu,

天御柱(あめのみはしら)国御柱命(くにのみはしらのみこと)、

amenomihashira kuninomihashiranomikoto,

亦名(またのな)は志那都比古(しなつひこ)志那都比売神(しなつひめのかみ)の御前(みまへ)を、

matanonaha shinatsuhiko shinatsuhimenokamino mimahewo,

慎(つつし)み敬(ゐやま)ひ畏(かしこ)み畏(かしこ)みも遥(はるか)に拝(をが)み奉(たてまつ)る。

tsutsushimi wiyamahi kashikomi kashikomimo harukani wogami tatematsuru.

過犯(あやまちをか)す事(こと)の有(あ)るをば、

ayamachiwokasu kotono aruwoba,

見直(みなほ)し聞直(ききなほ)し坐(ま)して、

minahoshi kikinahoshi mashite,

枉神(まがかみ)の為(なさ)む禍事(まがこと)を気吹払(いぶきはら)はし、

magakamino nasamu magakotowo ibukiharahashi,

堅石(かきは)に常石(ときは)に息長(おきなが)く令在給(あらしめたま)ひ、

kakihani tokihani okinagaku arashimetamahi,

天津神(あまつかみ)国津神(くにつかみ)に、

amatsukami kunitsukamini,

日(ひ)に異(け)に願白(ねぎまを)す事由(ことのよし)を、

hini keni negimawosu kotonoyoshiwo,

御気(みいき)の共(むた)走(はせ)出(いづ)る駒(こま)の耳(みみ)弥高(いやたか)に、

miikino muta hase izuru komano mimi iyatakani,

聞上給(きこえあげたま)ひ幸(さきは)へ給(たま)へと、

kikoeagetamahi sakihahe tamaheto,

畏(かしこ)み畏(かしこ)みも白(まを)す。

kashikomi kashikomimo mawosu.

Connected kami and buddhas

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