草くさ薙なぎの剣つるぎ

noun

Kusanagi no Tsurugi; grass-mowing sword

Alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi, one of the three Imperial regalia of Japan. The literal meaning 'grass-mowing sword' refers to the myth in which the sword was used to cut grass to escape a fire.

See also: 天叢雲剣

• 草くさ薙なぎの剣つるぎは三さん種しゅの神じん器ぎの一ひとつとされている。

  Kusanagi no Tsurugi is considered one of the three Imperial regalia.

• 神しん話わでは、スサノオが草くさ薙なぎの剣つるぎをヤマタノオロチから取とり出だした。

  In mythology, Susanoo took the Kusanagi sword from Yamata no Orochi.