Description acceptable. This location is often equated with one in which a deity is forced to sleep in a house infested with bugs and snakes. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name or describe this location where a deity creates a river by urinating on a tree and throws his headdress at a shikome chasing him. This location’s ruler pledges to bring 1,000 people here a day after her husband boulders it off.
ANSWER: Yomi [or Yomi-no-kuni; accept descriptions like the Shinto underworld or Japanese underworld; accept hell or netherworld or afterlife in place of “underworld”; accept Ne-no-kuni; prompt on underworld or hell or equivalents by asking “in what myth system?”]
[10e] They’re not grapes, but Izanagi stops the shikome by throwing these fruits at it while running through Yomi. The Queen Mother of the West hosts a banquet featuring immortality-granting examples of these fruits that grow in a garden once protected by Sūn Wùkōng.
ANSWER: peaches [or momo; or táo; accept peaches of immortality]
[10h] Yomi’s bouldered-off entrance is said to be in this historic province. Okuninushi, who was forced by Susano’o to sleep in an infested house, is worshipped in this non-Ise province’s Grand Shrine.
ANSWER: Izumo province [accept Izumo-taisha or Izumo Ōyashiro or Izumo Grand Shrine]
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