Omoikane

• Affiliation: Shinto
• Kami of: Advisor of Heaven.
• Family: –

Omoikane

Omoikane, (思兼 / 思金) also known as Tokoyo-no-omoi-kane is a kami from Shinto mythology mentioned in both the Kojiki and Nihongi.¹²

Once Amaterasu flees into the Sacred Rock Cave and the sun disapears from Heaven and Earth, this kami is tasked with figuring out a way to get her to leave the cave.¹²

He is said to be the advisor to the kami of Heaven.¹

In the Nihongi, he is additionally said to have gathered cockerals as a method to entice Amaterasu from the cave², but in the Kojiki it isn’t stated which kami does this.

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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