The land is handed over國讓

Then Amaterasu Ohomikami said, "What god would it be good to send now?"

Omohikane no Kami and the gods said, "It would be good to send Itsu no Ohabari no Kami (伊都之尾羽張神), who dwells in the heavenly rock cave at the head of Ame no Yasugawa. If it is not to be this god, then his son Takemikazuchi no O no Kami (建御雷之男神) must be sent. But that Ame no Ohabari no Kami has dammed the water of Ame no Yasugawa back upon itself and blocked the road, so no other god can pass. It would therefore be good to send Ame no Kaku no Kami (天迦久神) to ask him."

So Ame no Kaku no Kami was sent to ask Ame no Ohabari no Kami, and he answered and said, "I am filled with awe, and I will serve. But on this road it would be good to send my son Takemikazuchi no Kami." So he offered him up.

Then Ame no Torifune no Kami was sent along with Takemikazuchi no Kami.

So these two gods came down to the little shore of Izasa (伊耶佐) in the land of Izumo, drew the ten-hand sword (十拳劍), set it upside down in the crest of the waves, sat cross-legged on its point, and asked Ohokuninushi no Kami.

"We come to ask by the command of Amaterasu Ohomikami and Takagi no Kami. She entrusted it with these words, 'The Ashihara no Nakatsukuni that you 'ushihakeru' — that you rule — is the land that my child shall rule.' What then is in your heart?"

He answered and said, "I cannot answer. My son Yaekotoshironushi no Kami (八重言代主神) will answer. But he has gone to the cape of Miho to hunt birds and to fish, and he has not yet come back."

So Ame no Torifune no Kami was sent to bring Yaekotoshironushi no Kami, and when he was asked, he said to his father the great god, "I am filled with awe. This land shall be offered up to the child of the heavenly gods." At once he trod on the boat he had come in and tipped it over, clapped his hands toward heaven, turned it into a green brushwood fence, and hid inside it.

Then they asked that Ohokuninushi no Kami, "Now your son Kotoshironushi no Kami has answered in this way. Is there another son who should answer?"

Then he answered again, "There is also my son Takeminakata no Kami (建御名方神). There is no one besides him."

While he was saying this, that Takeminakata no Kami came bearing on his fingertips a rock that a thousand men would draw, and said, "Who is it that comes into our land and speaks in this way, whispering and whispering? Then let us match our strength. I will take his hand first."

So he let him take his hand, and at once it turned into an icicle, and then it turned into a sword blade. At this he was afraid and drew back.

Then he wished to take the hand of that Takeminakata no Kami, and he asked for it and took it, and he crushed it in his grip as one grips a young reed and flung it away, and Takeminakata no Kami fled at once.

So he pursued him as far as the sea of Suwa (州羽) in the land of Shinano (科野國), and when he was about to kill him, Takeminakata no Kami said, "I am filled with awe. Do not kill me. I will go nowhere but this place. I will not go against the command of my father Ohokuninushi no Kami, and I will not go against the word of Yaekotoshironushi no Kami. This Ashihara no Nakatsukuni I offer up as the child of the heavenly gods commands."

So he came back again and asked that Ohokuninushi no Kami, "Your two sons, Kotoshironushi no Kami and Takeminakata no Kami, have both said that they will not go against the command of the child of the heavenly gods. What then is in your heart?"

He answered and said, "As my two sons have said, so I too will not go against it. This Ashihara no Nakatsukuni I have already offered up as commanded.

Only as to the place where I dwell: if you will build it as the child of the heavenly gods rules in succession to the imperial seat, a 'todaru' — a lofty heavenly dwelling, with the pillars of the palace set 'futoshiri' — set thick into the rock roots below, and the roof beams raised 'takashiri' — raised high into Takamanohara, then I shall hide myself away beyond the eighty bends, twenty short of a hundred. And as for my children, the hundred and eighty gods, if Yaekotoshironushi no Kami stands before them and behind them and serves, there will be no god who goes against you."

He said this and hid himself away. So, as he had said, they built a heavenly dwelling on the little shore of Takishi (多藝志) in the land of Izumo, and they made Kushiyatama no Kami (櫛八玉神), the grandson of Minato no Kami (水戶神), the one in charge of the food, and when the heavenly feast was offered up, he spoke the words of prayer.

Kushiyatama no Kami turned into a cormorant, went down to the bottom of the sea, brought up the clay of the bottom in his mouth, and made eighty heavenly dishes. He cut the stems of seaweed and made a fire mortar, and from the stems of laver he made a fire drill, and as he drilled out the fire he said,

"This fire that I have drilled out — in Takamanohara it shall be burned up until the soot of the lofty new heavenly dwelling of Kamumusuhi no Mioya no Mikoto hangs down eight hands long, and below in the earth it shall be burned and hardened down to the rock roots at the bottom. A rope of paper mulberry is twisted into a net a thousand fathoms long, and the fisherman who fishes with it draws up the big-mouthed sea bass 'sawasawani' — with a splashing and a splashing, and the bent bamboo bends 'toootoooni' — bending and bending, as the true food of heaven is offered up."

So Takemikazuchi no Kami went back up and reported how he had brought round and calmed Ashihara no Nakatsukuni.