According to Japanese myth, the sun goddess Amaterasu sent her grandson Ninigi to earth to establish an eternal dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's New Past] Reference

Legend holds that these two mounds belong to an early imperial ancestor, Ninigi, grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imperial Tomb Mapped] Reference

Alighting on the western island of Kyushu, Ninigi wed an earthly deity and built a palace where his line ruled for three generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's New Past] Reference

Ninigi (grandson of the Sun Goddess) comes to Earth and settles in Kysh, whence he also brings the three sacred imperial regalia: a bronze mirror (symbol of the sun), an iron sword, and a jeweled necklace.    From Wordnik.com.  [e. Japanese Historical Mythology] Reference

As regards the first emperor, his ancestor Ninigi no.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

Hikoho no Ninigi, his descent upon Kyushu; rationalization of myth; founder of empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Nihon shoki (Chronicles of Japan), that Ninigi, a forefather of their race, had four sons.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Now Ninigi married (reader, forgive me for quoting the lady's name and her father's) Konohaneno-sakuyahime, the daughter of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

Amaterasu sent her grandson, Ninigi-no-mikoto, to reign over Japan, and he was the great-grandfather of Jimmu Tenno, the first emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The Norito first recites poetically the descent of Ninigi, the grandchild of the sun-goddess from heaven, and the quieting of the turbulent kami.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference

It is not wholly impossible, however, that Ninigi came from China, and that the Court which is said to have commissioned him was a Chinese Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Thereupon Hiko-ho no Ninigi no Mikoto, throwing open the barrier of heaven and clearing a cloud-path, urged on his superhuman course until he came to rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

What was originally involved in the conception of official functions, we learn from incidents prefatory to the expedition conducted by Ninigi for the subjugation of Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Those inhabiting the littoral districts were ultimately placed by Ninigi under the rule of Prince Hohodemi, and those inhabiting the mountain regions under the sway of Prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Ninigi -- his full name need not be repeated -- was made with all precautions, the van of his army (kume) being commanded by the ancestor of the men who thenceforth held the highest military rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Finally they hold that Ninigi and these five adjunct Kami, though occupying different places in the national polity, had a common ancestor whom they jointly worshipped, thus forming an eternal union.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

That Ninigi may have been identical with one of these persons is not inconceivable, but such a hypothesis refuses to be reconciled with the story of the fighting in Izumo which preceded the descent to.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

They hold that when the Sun goddess handed the three sacred objects to Ninigi -- generally called Tenson, or "heavenly grandchild" -- she ordained that the Imperial Throne should be coeval with heaven and earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The "northern and southern Wo" were probably the kingdom of Yamato and that set up in Kyushu by Ninigi, a supposition which lends approximate confirmation to the date assigned by Japanese historians for the expedition of Jimmu Tenno.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Omitting other comparatively trivial legends connected with the age of Susanoo and his descendants, we come to what may be called the second great event in the early annals of Japan, namely, the descent of Ninigi on the southern coast of Tsukushi (Kyushu).    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

As regards the descent of the Emperor Jimmu himself we already know that Ninigi no Mikoto, "the sovran grandchild" of the sun-goddess, was sent down with the sacred symbols of empire given to him in the sun by the sun-goddess herself before he started for the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

They further hold that when the Sun goddess detailed five Kami to form the suite of Ninigi, these Kami were entrusted with the ministerial duties originally discharged by them, and becoming the heads of five administrative departments, transmitted their offices to generation after generation of their descendants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

This became a yearly custom, and when Ninigi set out to conquer Japan, his grandmother gave rice seed to the ancestors of the Nakatomi and the Imibe families, who thenceforth conducted the harvest festival (nii-name, literally "tasting the new rice") every autumn, the sovereign himself taking part, and the head of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

It is plain that these conditions cannot be reconciled except on one of two suppositions: either that the Takama-ga-hara of this section of the annals was in a foreign country, or that the descent of Ninigi in the south of Japan was in the sequel of a complete defeat involving the Court's flight from Yamato as well as from Izumo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Further, they hold that whereas Ninigi and his five adjunct Kami all traced their lineage to the two producing Kami of the primal trinity, the special title of sovereignty conferred originally on the Sun goddess was transmitted by her to the Tenson (heavenly grandchild), Ninigi, the distinction of ruler and ruled being thus clearly defined.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

This Nigihayahi had been despatched from the continental realm of the Yamato -- wherever that may have been -- at a date prior to the despatch of his younger brother, Ninigi, for the purpose of subjugating the "land of fair rice-ears and fertile reed plains," but of the incidents of his expedition history takes no notice: it merely shows him as ruling in Yamato at the time of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

"From the time that Amaterasu-Omikami made Ninigi-no-mikoto to descend from the heavens and subject to his administrative sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference

Hiko-ho no Ninigi no Mikoto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

Ninigi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 55] Reference

Ninigi see Hikoho Ninigi.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Ninigi, Ninigi-No-Mikoto, Nin'insina, Ninip, Ninkarrak, Ninkasi, Ninki, Ninlil, Ninmah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference