Inori no Mori祈りの杜working title

Read, reflect, pray

Prayer to the hearth kami

釜所神祝詞かまどのかみののりと

A text in the 1911 Shintō Ōharai Zenshū anthology. It is presented as a historical reading, not the current ritual of every shrine or temple.

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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.

By command of Kamurogi and Kamuromi, imperial ancestral kami in Takamagahara, we name and praise Okitsuhiko and Okitsuhime.

Keep the hearths of the people throughout the land peaceful and steady as unshakable rock; make morning and evening meals abundant, and protect and bless descendants without change through every generation.

Though people commit faults and incur offences, blame or calamities, forgive and purify them until none remain, as wind clears the many layers of cloud. Hear this wish as a stag raises its ears to listen.

Source text and reading aid

No Roman-letter reading is supplied for this text. Please consult the Japanese page’s edition notes; this page does not guess a pronunciation from Chinese characters.

高天原（たかまがはら）に神留座（かみとゞまりましま）す皇親（すめむつ）、神漏岐（かみろぎ）神漏美（かみろみ）の命（みこと）を以（もつ）て、澳津彦命（おきつひこのみこと）、澳津姫命（おきつひめのみこと）と御名（おんな）を申（まう）す。

称辞（たゝへごと）奉（たてまつ）る国中（くになか）の万民（おほんたから）の竈（かまど）、常磐堅磐（ときはかきは）に安（やすら）けく、朝気夕気（あさけゆふけ）に豊饒（にぎはし）く、八十連続（やそつゞき）の末（すゑ）に至（いた）るまで、不易（かはらず）守（まもり）幸（さいはひ）給（たま）ひて。

仮令（たとひ）天益人等（あめのますひとら）が過（あやまち）を犯（をか）しけむ、雑々（くさぐさ）の罪事（つみこと）咎（とが）崇（たゝ）りをも科戸（しなど）の風（かぜ）の天八重雲（あめのやへぐも）を吹掃（ふきはらふ）事（こと）の如（ごと）く、遺（のこ）れる罪（つみ）は不在（あらじ）と、宥（なだめ）恕（ゆるし）祓（はらひ）給（たま）ひ清（きよ）め給（たま）へと、申（まう）す事（こと）の由（よし）を、左男鹿（さをしか）の八耳（やつのおんみみ）を振立（ふりたて）て所聞食（きこしめせ）と申（まう）す。

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