Yagamihime

deity single tradition · 1

Yagamihime is a deity from the land of Inaba. The yasokami and Ōnamuji were suitors seeking her hand in marriage. She chooses to wed Ōnamuji-no-Kami.

When

First attested
700 CE
Attested period
700 – 712
Historical notes
Documented in the Kojiki.

Relationships

consort of
Ōnamuji-no-Kami
parent of
Ki(no)mata-no-Kami

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“In accordance with their previous betrothal, he marries Yagamihime and brings her to his palace, but she, fearing Suseribime (who had become Ōkuninushi's chief wife), eventually went back to Inaba, leaving her newborn child wedged in the fork of a tree.”

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