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火折命
The name in its original Japanese form. Hoori (火折命) is attested in the source tradition — “Fire-subduing”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
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The plain hoori form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.
Hoori
The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Hoori. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.
Hoori.com → hoori.com
The non-ASCII characters in Hoori are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Hoori.
How Hoori is preserved in writing
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Hoori
Restores 火折命. The full Unicode restoration. hoori.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
How Hoori was spoken
Hunter, Sea-Voyager, and Founder of the Royal Line
Hoori is the younger son of Ninigi and Konohana-Sakuya-hime, the husband of the sea princess Toyotama, and the great-grandfather of Japan's first emperor, Jimmu. His name, 'Fire-Subduing,' marks him as the brother who overcame Hoderi's fire and whose line would rule the land.
He received the bow and became a hunter of the highlands.
Married the daughter of the sea god Ryūjin in the undersea palace.
His son by Toyotama continued the line to Emperor Jimmu.
His story explains how the imperial line gained legitimacy from both sea and land.
Stories of Hoori
Hoori's mythology is the bridge between the heavenly descent of Ninigi and the earthly reign of Jimmu. It is a story of exile, marriage, and return.
After exchanging gifts with his brother Hoderi, Hoori received the fishhook but lost it in the sea. Hoderi refused any substitute. Desperate, Hoori descended to the undersea palace of Ryūjin, the dragon god of the sea, where he was welcomed and married to the sea god's daughter, Toyotama.
Toyotama agreed to accompany Hoori to land on the condition that he not watch her give birth. Curiosity overcame him; he peeked and saw her in her true form as a sea dragon or crocodile. Ashamed, Toyotama returned to the sea, leaving their son Ugayafukiaezu to be raised on land. She sent her sister Tamayori to care for the child.
Ugayafukiaezu married his aunt Tamayori, and their son was Kamuyamato-Iwarebiko, later known as Emperor Jimmu. Thus Hoori's voyage to the sea and back became the mythical foundation of the imperial line.
Hoori is the one who looked. His curiosity cost him the presence of his divine wife, yet it also produced the imperial line. His story suggests that legitimacy is born not from perfect obedience but from the risks taken in pursuit of knowledge and connection.
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