In this essay, we take the position that we should consider “kotodama” not as a primitive faith, but as a primitive fact, by which all other facts are possible. “Kotodama” is etymologically composed of koto (language) and tama (spirit). The moment of koto is concerned not only with the fields of linguistics in the narrow sense, but widely with the dimension of epistemological articulation, including the conflicts of koto (words) with koto (happenings or acts). On the other hand, the moment of tama is related to the dynamics of the spirit or the soul, especially its ontological transformation.
