1. KuniumiIn Japanese mythology, the creation of Japan (国産み, Kuniumi, lit. "birth or formation of the country") is the traditional and legendary history of the emergence of the Japanese archipelago as narrated firsthand in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. According to this legend, after the creation of Heaven and Earth, the gods Izanagi and Izanami were given the task of forming a series of islands that would become what is now Japan. In Japanese mythology these islands make up the known world.
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