In these anecdotes, he mowed down grass with Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi (the sword Ame-no-Murakumo, literally "Heavenly Sword of Assembled Clouds") and escaped danger when he was attacked with fire on a plain in Suruga.
この説話では、駿河で野火攻めに遭った時、天叢雲剣（あめのむらくものつるぎ）で草をなぎ払って難を逃れた。