Ō clan
{{Short description|Japanese clan}}
{{Infobox Japanese clan|founder=Kamuyaimimi|parent house=Imperial House of Japan|cadet branches=Aso clan}}
{{Nihongo|Ō clan|多氏|Ō no uji|extra=also written as {{Nihongo2|大氏}}}} is a descendant clan of Jimmu and Himetataraisuzu-hime. They are descended from Kamuyaimimi.{{Cite book |last=Grapard |first=Allan G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxS7EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22%C5%8C+clan%22&pg=PA35 |title=The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History |date=2023-04-28 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91036-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QPXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%C5%8C+clan%22 |title=Tenri Journal of Religion |date=1968 |publisher=Tenri University Press |language=en}}
Ō no Yasumaro was a famous member. He became head of the clan in 716 around the time he wrote the Kojiki.Obunsha Japanese Encyclopedia 3rd EditionAston (1995:xv)
Relationship with Takemikazuchi
{{Main|Takemikazuchi}}
Takemikazuchi was originally a local god (kunitsukami) revered by the Ō clan,{{cite book |last=小向 |first=正司 |title=神道の本 |publisher=学研 |year=1992 |series=Books Esoterica |volume=2 |pages=76–7}}(zasshi code 66951-07; kyōtsu zasshi code T10-66951-07-1000) and was a god of maritime travel. However, the Nakatomi clan who also has roots in this region, and when they took over control of priestly duties from the Ō clan, they also instituted Takemikazuchi as the Nakatomi clan's ujigami (clan deity). Or so this is the observation by {{Interlanguage link multi|Iwao Ōwa|ja|大和岩雄|vertical-align=sup}} in his Jinja to kodai ōken saishi (1989). He goes on to theorize that the Ō clan was originally {{Nihongo|ōmi|大忌|"greater taboo (priesthood)"}}, but was usurped by the Nakatomi who were among the "lesser priesthood" (the latter claims descent from the {{Nihongo|Inbe clan|忌部氏}}).
Genealogy
{{Eight generations of Izumo}}
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|last=Aston|first=William George|title=Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697|volume=1|place=London|publisher=Japan Society of London|year=1896|isbn=9780524053478 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IJrNAKBpycC&pg=PA299|author-link=William George Aston}}, English translation
- {{cite book|last=宇治谷|first=孟 (Tsutomu Ujitani)|title=日本書紀|volume=上|publisher=講談社|year=1988|isbn=9780802150585}}
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