Okuninushi then gave the country to Tenson Ninigi, the grandson of Amaterasu Omikami, withdrew to the land of Kizuki, and later was enshrined at Izumo Taisha Shrine.
国土を天孫・ニニギに譲って杵築（きづき）の地に隠退、後に出雲大社の祭神となる。