Editorial approach
Readings and translations
How the original text remains primary while readings and translations make it possible to follow with care.
Japanese text
Each page identifies one public document or source-reviewed edition as the basis of its displayed text. Different textual lines are not silently blended together, and editorial normalization of older characters or senmyō-style notation is recorded in the underlying edition notes.
Norito vary across periods and lines of transmission. The text shown here is a documented reading edition, not a claim that only one form exists.
Ōharae no Kotoba uses 吹き払ふ in the image of mist being blown away and 打ち掃ふ in the image of brushwood being cleared with a sickle. We normalize the older character 拂 to 払 but retain 掃 in the later passage, following the shrine references below. The Japanese readings are ふきはらふ and うちはらふ, respectively.
Readings and romanization
Japanese readings are checked against furigana in the base document and independent reading references. Ruby is aligned to meaningful word groups rather than distributed mechanically across a whole sentence.
The English edition supplies reviewed romanization of the Japanese reading. Historical kana, divine names, and words with variant readings follow the edition selected for that page.
Translation
English translations compare multiple public references and are edited section by section to preserve their correspondence with the Japanese text. They are not copied wholesale from an existing translation.
Where the wording adds interpretation, the page says so. Each translation is a reading aid rather than a single final interpretation or a statement of one required ritual practice.
Corrections
If you find an error or have a clearer rendering, use “Suggest correction” on the relevant reading page. A URL, book title, author, or page number may be included as supporting evidence.
Suggestions are checked against the edition and its references before any change is published.
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