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A mother spreads the rumor that her son is dead, then sails for the capital with the prince and her soldiers hidden aboard a funeral ship. A battle with his scheming half-brothers, a stunning reversal thanks to a bowstring hidden in General Topknot's hair, a lord and his loyal retainer vanishing into a lake, and a strange gift from the god of the northern shore—until the child everyone thought dead returns to his mother, and one day becomes king.

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Kojiki series, Episode 14. A king who doubted the gods' words dies in the middle of playing his koto. "That voice came out of my mouth." Carrying both her guilt and her unborn child, the empress asks the gods again herself. Then she sets out to sea, trusting the fish to carry her fleet across the rough waves. *Based on myths written down some 1,300 years ago, not on historical fact.

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Gravely ill, Yamato Takeru reaches the plain of Nobono. There he sings a farewell song to his homeland, Yamato, and entrusts his father's cord to his son before he dies. He then becomes a great white bird and flies away, and his family chases it across paddies, bamboo stubble, sea and rocky shore, singing as they go. This is the final chapter of Book II.

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His eastern campaign over, Yamato Takeru returns to Owari and, as promised, exchanges songs with Miyazuhime and marries her. Leaving his sword in her keeping, he heads for Mount Ibuki barehanded—but one careless boast to a white boar, "I'll kill you on my way back," brings the fury of the mountain itself down on him. Weakened and stumbling, he sets out for home.

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Trapped by a storm on the Hashirimizu Sea, Ototachibanahime steps down onto the waves so her husband Yamato Takeru can finish his mission. Holding back his grief, the young prince subdues the East, and on a mountain pass on the way home, he cries out three times: "Azuma haya!"

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Before heading east, Yamato Takeru receives a sword from his aunt Yamatohime, along with a small pouch she tells him to open only when he's in real trouble. In Owari, he and Miyazuhime promise to marry when he comes back. Then, in the land of Sagamu, the Chieftain lures him into a field with a story about a violent god and sets it on fire. With flames closing in on every side, what saves him is the gift in his aunt's pouch.

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On his way home from the west, Ousu (Yamato Takeru) befriends the hero of Izumo, then kills him with a hollow wooden sword. Back in the capital, his father sends him straight off to conquer the east. In front of his aunt, the boy cries for the first time, and she gives him a real sword and a tightly tied pouch.

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Kojiki Book II, Episode 8. Prince Ousu carries out his father's order to the letter—and the terrified Emperor Keiko sends him off to the far west. Disguised as a girl in his aunt's robe, the boy slips into the Kumaso Takeru brothers' feast. The name his dying enemy gives him: Yamato Takeru.

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Born inside a burning fortress, Prince Homuchiwake still has not spoken a word, even with a beard down to his chest. His father, Emperor Suinin, sends a hunter to chase a white swan to the ends of the land. But what finally wakes the prince's voice is the wish of a forgotten god in Izumo. This episode follows his first words, a night with a serpent princess, the death of a loyal servant who brought back fruit from the Everlasting Land, and the prince's vow to speak the words his father never heard.

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"Who do you love more, your husband or your brother?" Sahobime's brother asks her this, and she is the Emperor's wife. Three times she raises a blade over her sleeping husband, and three times she can't strike. Inside a burning fortress of rice she gives birth to a son. She sends the child to her husband and stays at her brother's side, choosing an answer that abandons neither of them.

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A plague has nearly emptied the land. Emperor Sujin is told in a dream to find a man named Otataneko, though nobody has ever heard of him. When he is found at last, Otataneko tells an old family story. Long ago, a young woman named Ikutamayoribime was visited every night by a handsome stranger who would not give his name. She stitched a single hemp thread into his robe. In the morning, it ran out through the keyhole of her locked door, and at its end waited the very god the emperor met in his dream.

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After Kamuyamato-Iwarebiko, the first king, dies, his eldest son Tagishimimi, a half brother born in a far southern land, plots to kill his three younger brothers. Their mother, Isukeyorihime, hides a warning in a song about the landscape. The youngest, Kamununakawamimi, decodes it. When his brother Kamuyaimimi freezes with the sword raised, Kamununakawamimi takes the blade from his hands.

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Having lost his brother on the road to Yamato, Iwarebiko clears his way with song: a feast-song signal in a mountain cave, a dawn assault on the man who shot his brother, and a call that brings food to his starving soldiers. Now king of the land, the young man gets help from his comrade-in-arms Okume's answering verse and meets a maiden with an unflinching gaze.

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After losing his brother Itsuse, Iwarebiko lands at Kumano, where a mysterious great bear appears and every last one of his warriors falls asleep. A sword sent down from heaven and Yatagarasu, the Great Crow, show him the way forward. Along the road he meets tailed earthly gods, and in Uda a man who set a deadly trap ends up caught in it himself.

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Iwarebiko has always walked half a step behind his older brother Itsuse. When Itsuse falls to an arrow while fighting straight into the rising sun, he leaves his younger brother one last battle plan: "Put the sun at your back." For the first time, Iwarebiko must choose his own path.