Izanagi-no-mikoto

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Izanagi-no-mikoto sought to leave after going to the realm of the dead (Yomi no Kuni) to visit his spouse Izanami-no-mikoto. He was chased by the demoness Yomotsushikome. To stop her, he threw her a stick from which Sae no Kami was born.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
700 CE
Attested period
700 – 2020
Historical notes
Documented in the Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan), compiled in 720 CE.

Relationships

consort of
Izanami-no-mikoto
creator of
Amaterasu-ōmikami

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Sources

Source passages

“When one of the kami, Izanagi-no-mikoto, sought to leave after going to the realm of the dead (Yomi no Kuni) to visit his spouse Izanami-no-mikoto, he was chased by the demoness Yomotsushikome (黄泉醜女, lit. Yomi ugly woman). To stop her, he threw her a stick from which Sae no Kami was born.”

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