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Kukurihime no Kami (菊理媛神), a goddess enshrined at Shirayama Hime Shrine. Kuraokami (闇龗) is a legendary Japanese dragon and Shinto deity of rain and snow. Kushinadahime; Kuzuryū, minor water deity. [21] Mizuhanome, water kami. [23] Moreya (洩矢神) Nakisawame, kami born from Izanagi's tears after his wife's death. [24] Nesaku, a ...
This is a family tree of Japanese deities. It covers early emperors until Emperor Ojin, the first definitively known historical emperor, see family tree of Japanese monarchs for a continuation of the royal line into historical times.
Japanese gods (1 C, 85 P ... Onmyōdō deities (11 P) S. Shinto kami (7 C, 104 P) Shugendō deities (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Japanese deities" The following 32 ...
List of deities; Mythology; Polytheism; ... List of Shinto shrines; ... Japanese Imperial Rituals (15 P) Japanese mythology (11 C, 98 P)
Japanese gods and goddesses, called kami, are uniquely numerous (there are at least eight million) and varied in power and stature. [1] They are usually descendants from the original trio of gods that were born from nothing in the primordial oil that was the world before the kami began to shape it.
It is known that these deities mostly have their origins as ancient gods of fortune from religions popular in Japan: from Mahayana Buddhism (Benzaiten, Bishamonten, Daikokuten) which came to Japan from China but originated in India, and from Chinese Taoism (Fukurokuju, Hotei, Jurojin); except for one (Ebisu) who has a native Japanese ancestry ...
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the ...
For lists of Shinto shrines, see: List of Shinto shrines in Japan. List of Shinto shrines in Kyoto; List of Shinto shrines outside Japan. List of Shinto shrines in Taiwan; List of Shinto shrines in the United States