Mizuhanome

• • Affiliation: Shinto
  • Kami of: Irrigation
  • Family: Izanami (mother) Wakumusubi (sibling)

Mizuhanome

Mizuhanome  (彌都波能売神 – Water Gushing Woman) was a child of Izanami, born from her urine during her death throws after being burnt after the birth of Kagutsuchi. She is the sister of Wakumusubi in the kojiki.¹

The Engi Rites state she has shrine in Foxtail Millet and Good Moors.¹

In one version of the nihongi, she is a Water kami where Izanami merely gives birth to her as she is dying. Another version agrees with the kojiki in that she is formed from the urine of Izanami.²

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.

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