euhemerists

Japanese euhemerists, several of whom, in former times as well as in the present, have devoted much learned research to the elucidation of their country's mythology, insist that tradition never intended to make such a demand upon human credulity as to ask it to believe in the begetting of islands by normal process of procreation.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886