Read, reflect, pray
Homage to Tatsuta’s wind kami
拝竜田風神詞
A prayer honoring the wind kami at Tatsuta and asking that daily wishes be received and life remain peaceful.
English meaning and source text
English meaning
About this English rendering
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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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How to use the Roman letters
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本文
大和国平群郡龍田の立野に大宮柱太敷立て鎮座坐す、
ohoyamatonokuni hegurinokohori tatsutano tachinuni ohomiyabashira futoshikitatete shizumarimasu,
天御柱国御柱命、
amenomihashira kuninomihashiranomikoto,
亦名は志那都比古志那都比売神の御前を、
matanonaha shinatsuhiko shinatsuhimenokamino mimahewo,
慎み敬ひ畏み畏みも遥に拝み奉る。
tsutsushimi wiyamahi kashikomi kashikomimo harukani wogami tatematsuru.
過犯す事の有るをば、
ayamachiwokasu kotono aruwoba,
見直し聞直し坐して、
minahoshi kikinahoshi mashite,
枉神の為む禍事を気吹払はし、
magakamino nasamu magakotowo ibukiharahashi,
堅石に常石に息長く令在給ひ、
kakihani tokihani okinagaku arashimetamahi,
天津神国津神に、
amatsukami kunitsukamini,
日に異に願白す事由を、
hini keni negimawosu kotonoyoshiwo,
御気の共走出る駒の耳弥高に、
miikino muta hase izuru komano mimi iyatakani,
聞上給ひ幸へ給へと、
kikoeagetamahi sakihahe tamaheto,
畏み畏みも白す。
kashikomi kashikomimo mawosu.
Connected kami and buddhas
These connections include figures addressed, mentioned, or associated by tradition. They do not assign a universal recitation practice.
Sources and edition (1)
English explanations on this page were prepared by Inori no Mori from the cited text and its Japanese explanations. They are not an official translation or a prescribed liturgy.