Amenooshio

• • Affiliation: Shinto
  • Kami of: Chikanoshima
  • Family: Izanami (mother) Izanagi (father)

Amenooshio

Amenooshio (天之忍男 – Grand Men of Heaven) was the kami which inhabited the island of Chikanoshima, according to the Kojiki.¹

The Nihongi does not give a name to this kami, simply stating:

Izanami and Izanagi then produced the sea, the rivers, and then the mountains,` after the Great Land of Eightfold Isles.²

This kami is said to have been the father of Yosotarashi Hime who was wife to Emperor Kōshō.³

 Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
3. Ponsonby, F. (1959) “The Imperial House of Japan.” Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.

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