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The Seven Lucky Gods (by Yoshitoshi) The Seven Lucky Gods (七福神, Shichi Fukujin) are: Benzaiten (弁才天 or 弁財天) Also known as Benten or Benzaitennyo, she is the goddess of everything that flows: words (and knowledge, by extension), speech, eloquence, and music. Said to be the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi, over ...
Legend in Japanese art: a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore, myths, religious symbolism, illustrated in the arts of old Japan. New York: J. Lane. (1908) Monaghan, Patricia. Encyclopedia of goddesses and heroines. ABC-CLIO. (2010) Ozaki, Yei Theodora. The Japanese fairy book. Archibald Constable & Co. (1903)
Subsequently, other classes of Japanese society looked for gods that could correspond with their professions: Benzaiten as the patron of the arts, Fukurokuju as the patron of the sciences, and so on. In ancient times, these gods were worshiped separately, but this rarely happens today – only when it is required for the god to act on behalf of ...
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.
The fox witch is, by far, the most commonly seen witch figure in Japan. Differing regional beliefs set those who use foxes into two separate types: the kitsune-mochi , and the tsukimono-suji . The first of these, the kitsune-mochi , is a solitary figure who gains his fox familiar by bribing it with its favourite foods.
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.
Kotodama is a central concept in Japanese mythology, Shinto, and Kokugaku. For example, the Kojiki describes an ukei (or seiyaku ) 誓約 "covenant; trial by pledge" between the sibling gods Susanoo and Amaterasu , "Let each of us swear, and produce children".
Kamimusubi (神産巣日), also known as Kamimusuhi among other variants, is a kami and god of creation in Japanese mythology.They are a hitorigami, and the third of the first three kami to come into existence (Kotoamatsukami), [1] alongside Ame-no-Minakanushi and Takamimusubi, forming a trio at the beginning of all creation. [2]