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Here, I would like to go back to the brief explanation about Dr. Origuchi’s theory, which is related to one of the main topics of this book, Shinto. He defined a Japanese term, “Tama,” as the soul as if Tama were inside the flesh of Tenno. Then, he fell into the huge fallacy. You will understand what a terrible theory he made up, ignoring Shinto’s fundamental classics: both “Nihon- Sho-Ki” and “Koji-Ki,”

Tama never existed inside of any Tenno’s body in Nihon-Sho-Ki and Koji-Ki. For example, in the story of Ohnamuchi-No-Mikoto, one of the ancestors of Tenno, in Mythology Chapter in “Nihon-Sho-Ki,” Ohnamuchi-No-Mikoto, the conqueror of Japanese islands, met his own “Tama” right after the lands that he had conquered suddenly fell into chaos.

When he had wondered why this miserable state occurred, a bright light appeared from far away over the horizon of the sea. Ohnamichi-No-Mikoto asked the light, “Who are you?” It answered, “I am your Tama. The cause of this disastrous state of this world resulted from the fact that I was wandering around the surface of the earth. You have to return me to the place where I should belong to.”

Ohnamuchi-No-Mikoto asked it, “Where on earth do you belong to?” It answered, “I want to go back to the Hades through Mt. Mimuro in Nara, which is thought to have been the gate of the Hades, one of the sacred places for the people of ancient Japan. It is important pay attention to the story in Nihon-Sho-Ki. Tama was not inside Ohnamuchi’s flesh, but Tama wanted to go back to the Hades. This is the decisive point to understand the character of “Tama.”

I will prove in the later chapter the true essence of “Tama.” Dr. Origuchi completely overlooked the important lines of this story in “Nihon-Sho-Ki,” even though he alluded to this story in his theory. The theory he came up with was, “Tama, the soul, is in Tenno’s flesh and Tama has been inherited since the first Tenno, Jinmu, by only authentic successors, who have been, Tenno.” Dr. Origuchi defined the divinity of Tenno in this fallacious context mixed up with his contradictory theory. The reason why “Tama” should not be defined as the soul but as “sacred” will be briefly explained later.

Origuch defined “Tama” as the soul, which was a terrible mistake and this was the very beginning of the fallacious theory. Most of the Shinto researchers started to believe his theory. And, the misinterpretation of Tama has led to huge misunderstanding of the meaning of the enthronement ceremony of Tenno. You could clearly understand that Dr. Origuchi made up his own cult. Origuchi-style interpretation has become a kind of common sense among most of Shinto researchers as well as Shinto priests ever since. I cannot help doubting if Shinto researchers have ability to read the important historical data.

This is the very part that the late Dr. Katsuyoshi Watanabe pointed out in his book, “Chinkon-Sai no Kenkyu, the Study of the Ceremony for the Repose of the Soul,” which was officially presented to the Present Tenno. This was actually the very first book that the Imperial Household Agency accepted the book of Shinto as correct, which depicted the interesting history of Shinto in a true way.