Nikko Mountain Engi

Japanese: 日光山縁起 - にっこうざんえんぎ

One of the sacred mountain legends. A legend of Nikko Gongen, written in the mid-Muromachi period. Two volumes. Author unknown. The first volume records that Ariu Chujo (Male body Gongen) was talented and devoted to loyal service, but his love of falconry drew the wrath of the emperor, and he then went to Shimotsuke and then to Mutsu Province, where he married Asahi Choja's daughter (Male body Gongen), and later died of illness. The second volume records that the Chujo was revived and appeared as Nikko Sansho Gongen with his wife and child, and that his grandson Ono Sarumaru helped Nikko Gongen in a divine battle between Nikko Gongen in the form of a giant snake and Akagi Myojin in Kozuke Province, who was in the form of a centipede.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

霊山縁起の一つ。日光権現の縁起で，室町中期の撰。2巻。著者未詳。上巻は，有宇（ありう）中将(男体権現)は才芸にすぐれ，忠勤に励んだが，鷹狩を好んだことで帝のいかりにふれ，下野にたちよったのち陸奥国に下向，朝日長者の娘(女体権現)をめとり，のち病没したことを記す。下巻では中将が蘇生して妻，子と日光三所権現として現れたこと，中将の孫にあたる小野猿丸が，大蛇の姿の日光権現と百足（むかで）の姿の上野国赤城明神との神いくさに，日光権現を助けたことなどを記す。

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