Next, they took the hard rocks from the upper Ame no Yasu-kawa River, extracted the iron from a metal-mountain, searched for a blacksmith, Amatsumara, and ordered Ishikoridome to make Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror, one of the Imperial regalia). 天の安河の川上にある堅い岩を取り、鉱山の鉄を採り、鍛冶師の天津麻羅を探し、イシコリドメに命じて八咫鏡(やたのかがみ)を作らせた。 |