Japanese Mythology
Hachiman
Hachiman (jap. 八幡) is a popular Japanese god worshipped in both Shintō and Japanese Buddhism. Thus, in the nearly 1200-year history of his worship, the kami-Buddhist syncretism (Shinbutsu-Shūgō) typical of...
Hachiman
Hachiman (jap. 八幡) is a popular Japanese god worshipped in both Shintō and Japanese Buddhism. Thus, in the nearly 1200-year history of his worship, the kami-Buddhist syncretism (Shinbutsu-Shūgō) typical of...
Tsukuyomi
Tsukuyomi (月読) or Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (月夜見の尊), also known as Tsukiyomi or Tsuki no Miya, is the god of the moon and night in Japanese Shintoism and mythology. He lived in the...
Tsukuyomi
Tsukuyomi (月読) or Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (月夜見の尊), also known as Tsukiyomi or Tsuki no Miya, is the god of the moon and night in Japanese Shintoism and mythology. He lived in the...
Izanagi
Izanagi (イザナギ) is a Shinto deity - a kami - co-creator of the world and Japan. His story is reported in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki, two collections dealing with...
Izanagi
Izanagi (イザナギ) is a Shinto deity - a kami - co-creator of the world and Japan. His story is reported in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki, two collections dealing with...
Amaterasu
Amaterasu (天照) is, in Shintoism, the goddess of the Sun. According to this religion, all Japanese emperors had her as an ancestor. She would have introduced rice growing, wheat growing...
Amaterasu
Amaterasu (天照) is, in Shintoism, the goddess of the Sun. According to this religion, all Japanese emperors had her as an ancestor. She would have introduced rice growing, wheat growing...
Kodama
A kodama (木霊 or 木魂) is a spirit in Japanese folklore that lives in a tree (similar to the dryads of Greek mythology). Also known as kodama is the tree...
Kodama
A kodama (木霊 or 木魂) is a spirit in Japanese folklore that lives in a tree (similar to the dryads of Greek mythology). Also known as kodama is the tree...
Susano
Susanoo (素戔嗚命/須佐之男命, Susano-o no Mikoto) is the god (kami) of storms in Shinto1. Legend Susanoo (sometimes transcribed as "Susanowo") is the brother of Amaterasu, the sun goddess, and Tsukuyomi, the...
Susano
Susanoo (素戔嗚命/須佐之男命, Susano-o no Mikoto) is the god (kami) of storms in Shinto1. Legend Susanoo (sometimes transcribed as "Susanowo") is the brother of Amaterasu, the sun goddess, and Tsukuyomi, the...
