Nushi

The word 'nushi' simply refers to the owner of the house. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The Japanese Emperor is the highest Kan-nushi of all. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Zheiwei nushi xiang qu cheshud, ramhou huldao queue. ' ❋ Hall, Adam (1991)

The next evening Okami arrived unannounced at Iwa-nushi's house. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)

The first three are the creators of heaven and earth, and they are Ame-no-minaka-nushi, who existed immobile at the time of the creation; Takami-misubi, and Kami-busubi, agents in the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A miyatsuko had administered the affairs of the kuni, holding the office by hereditary right, and the agata of which there were about 590, a frequently changing total as well as the inaki and the mura had been under officials called nushi. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

There were also uji whose members, from generation to generation, acted as governors of provinces (kuni no miyatsuko) or headmen of districts (agata-nushi). ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

The process is said to have been taught by Sukuna, who, as shown above, came to Japan from a foreign country -- probably China -- when the Kami, Okuni-nushi, was establishing order in the Japanese islands. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

Okuni-nushi, Kami, "Great Name Possessor"; ancestor of Oga-uji ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

The latter duty was entrusted to officials called kuni-no-miyatsuko and agata-nushi, which may be translated ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

These are for keepsakes, and there are many other curious and pretty souvenirs to buy in those pretty shops; porcelains bearing the picture of the Mionoseki temple, and metal clasps for tobacco pouches representing Koto-shiro - nushi-no-Kami trying to put a big tai-fish into a basket too small for it, and funny masks of glazed earthenware representing the laughing face of the god. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

His son, Koto-shiro - nushi-no-Kami, is similarly confounded with Ebisu, or Yebisu, the patron of honest labour. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Saite yuke toya, ano ya wo saite; Yuke ba chikayoru nushi no soba. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Of more humble ex-votos, there is a queer collection in the shamusho or business building on the right of the haiden: a series of quaintly designed and quaintly coloured pictures, representing ships in great storms, being guided or aided to port by the power of Koto-shiro - nushi-no-Kami. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

But from before the third shrine, in the farther angle of the chamber, the curtains have been withdrawn; and these are of gold brocade, and the shrine before which they hang is the chief shrine, that of Oho-kuni - nushi-no-Kami. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

But tourists need permits to visit -- the state is plagued by rebel insurgencies -- so a visit to the canteen may be the closest that many people will ever get to tasting Naga specialties like smoked pork stir-fried with bamboo shoots, and pork stewed with nushi, the leaf of a local yam. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Okini-nushi-no-mikoto and other offspring of the deities in the land, descendants of the divine beings have sat upon the throne, generation after generation in succession. "[ ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)