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Japanese: 大国主神: Major cult center: Izumo Taisha, Ōmiwa Shrine and others: Color: Black: Texts: Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Izumo Fudoki and others: Genealogy; Parents: Ame-no-Fuyukinu and Sashikuniwakahime Susanoo-no-Mikoto and Kushinadahime (Nihon Shoki) Siblings: Unnamed eighty brothers: Consort
Deep in the mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture, there is a tale that the "yamahime" would appear as a woman around twenty years of age and would have beautiful features, a small sleeve, and black hair, and that when a hunter encounters her and tries to shoot at it with a gun, she would repel the bullet with her hands.
Table illustrating the kami that appeared during the creation of Heaven and Earth according to Japanese mythology.. In Japanese mythology, the Japanese Creation Myth (天地開闢, Tenchi-kaibyaku, Literally "Creation of Heaven & Earth") is the story that describes the legendary birth of the celestial and creative world, the birth of the first gods, and the birth of the Japanese archipelago.
"Tesso" (鉄鼠) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.The text on the top left reads, "it is the place known to the world where Raigō's spirit turned into a rat" (頼豪の灵（霊）鼠と化(かす)と世尓(に)志(し)る所也) [1] "Mii-dera Raigō Ajari Akunen Nezumi to Henzuru Zu" from the Shinkei Sanjūrokkai Sen by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
The Kojiki (古事記, "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi [1] or Furukotobumi, [2] [a] is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 [3] concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami (神), and the Japanese imperial line.
Bishamonten is the Japanese equivalent of the Indian Kubera and the Buddhist Vaishravana. [39] [40] Daikokuten (大黒天) Often shortened to simply Daikoku, he is variously considered to be the god of wealth (more specifically, the harvest), or of the household (particularly the kitchen). He is recognized by his wide face, smile, and flat ...
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.
Chinese dragon mythology is the source of Japanese dragon mythology. Japanese words for "dragon" are written with kanji ("Chinese characters"), either simplified shinjitai 竜 or traditional kyūjitai 龍 from Chinese long 龍. These kanji can be read tatsu in native Japanese kun'yomi, [b] and ryū or ryō in Sino-Japanese on'yomi. [c]