Kukurihime

• • Affiliation: Shinto
  • Kami of:
  • Family: ??

Kukurihime

Kukurihime (菊理媛神) is a Shinto kami who appears in one alternative version of the Nihongi. She appears to Izanagi after he has left his wife in Yomi and divorced her.

The Nihongi says that this kami says something enjoyable to Izanagi and then disappears. It isn’t stated what she says.¹

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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