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Toshigami (年神 or 歳神, Toshigami or Tomo, lit. "year god"), also known as Ōtoshi-no-kami (大年神, lit. "great year god"), is a Japanese kami and a part of the Shinto pantheon. Etymology [ edit ]
Another version of the myth features Ōgetsu-hime by her more common name, Ukemochi, and in this version, the moon god Tsukuyomi visits her on behalf of his sister-wife, the sun goddess Amaterasu. Ukemochi sought to entertain him and prepared a feast. First, she faced the land and opened her mouth, and boiled rice came out.
Thus it is a kind of toshigami. The practice has shifted over the years. According to 20th century descriptions, the namahage would typically receive mochi (rice cakes) from the households they visited, [ 3 ] but newlywed couples were supposed to play host to them in full formal attire and offer them sake and food. [ 3 ]
[1] [2] Daikokuten's popular imagery originated as a syncretic conflation of the Buddhist death deity Mahākāla with the Shinto deity Ōkuninushi. [3] The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the Sanskrit name Mahākāla which means "Great Blackness".
With the exception of Tsunami, all Nekojiru's work has main characters drawn as cats. Even in her manga essays, Jirujiru Travel Journal and Jirujiru Diary, she drew herself as a cat. But though the characters appear as animals, the artist chose as her setting not a forest, but rather the human world.
Ebisu (えびす, 恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎), also transliterated Webisu (ゑびす, see historical kana orthography) or called Hiruko (蛭子) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (事代主神), is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck.
Oto-hime (Princess Oto)'s name consists of the character also read otsu meaning "No. 2". [ a ] [ 1 ] Thus Oto-hime must have been the 'second daughter' or 'younger princess' of the Dragon King ( Ryū-ō ), as explained by folklorist Yoshio Miyao [ ja ] in his bilingual edition of the In Urashima fairytale. [ 1 ]
Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899) Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.