A comparison of kami names in Nihon Shoki and Kojiki
*: The text in red refers to an article that is part of the "Kami in Classic Texts" section of Chapter 2 of the present work.
*1: The scroll of the Nihon shoki referred to as the "Age of the Kami" or "Divine Age" (kamiyo) is divided into two parts, the first comprising the "primary account" and the second containing "alternative accounts." In this table, PA means the primary account and AA means the alternative account. *2: Readered using different Chinese characters. *3: This kami was born from the body part or object shown in the brackets.
Kojiki Nihon shoki described article names of kami names of kami vol. ch. PA*1 AA*1 Separate heavenly kami (Kotoamatsu kami).
1 ① Amenominakanushinokami Amenominakanushinomikoto 1 1 － 4
2 ② Takamimusuhinokami Takamimusuhinomikoto 1 1 － 4
Takaginokami same as above 1 8 － 6
Takagino’ōkami same as above 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 4
same as above 2 9 － 6
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Takamimusuhinomikoto*2 15 Feb., Kensō3(487)
same as above 15 April, Kensō3(487)
3 ③ Kamumusuhinokami Kamumimusuhinomikoto 1 1 － 4
4 ④ Umashiashikabihikojinokami Umashiashikabihikojinomikoto 1 1 － 2
same as above 1 1 － 3
same as above 1 1 － 6
5 ⑤ Amenotokotachinokami Amenotokotachinomikoto 1 1 － 6 The first seven generations of the age of kami.
6 ① Kuninotokotachinokami Kuninotokotachinomikoto 1 1 ○ －
same as above 1 1 － 1
same as above 1 1 － 2
same as above 1 1 － 4
same as above 1 1 － 5
same as above 1 1 － 6
same as above 1 2 － 2
same as above 1 3 ○ －
- 1 - Kuninosokotachinomikoto 1 1 － 1
same as above 1 1 － 3
7 ② Toyokumononokami Toyokumununomikoto 1 1 ○ －
Toyokuninushinomikoto 1 1 － 1
Toyokumunonomikoto 1 1 － 1
Toyokabunonomikoto 1 1 － 1
Ukabunonotoyokafunomikoto 1 1 － 1
Toyokuninonomikoto 1 1 － 1
Toyokabunonomikoto 1 1 － 1
Hakokuninonomikoto 1 1 － 1
Minonomikoto 1 1 － 1
8 Uijininomikoto Uijininomikoto 1 2 ○
③ same as above 1 3 － 1
Uijinenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
9 Suichininokami Suijininomikoto 1 2 ○ －
same as above 1 3 － 1
Suijinenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
10 Tsunokuinokami Tsunokuinomikoto 1 3 － 1 ④ 11 Ikukuinokami Ikukuinomikoto 1 3 － 1
12 Ōtonojinokami Ōtonojinomikoto 1 2 ○ －
⑤ Ōtomahikonomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Ōtomajinomikoto 1 2 ○ －
13 Ōtonobenokami Ōtonobe 1 2 ○ －
Ōtomabenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Ōtomahimenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Ōtomabenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
14 Omodarunokami Omodarunomikoto 1 2 ○ －
⑥ same as above 1 3 － 1
15 Ayakashikonenokami Kashikonenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
same as above 1 3 － 1
Ayakashikonenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Imukashikinomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Aokashikinenomikoto 1 2 ○ －
same as above 1 2 － 1
Ayakashikinomikoto 1 2 ○ －
Two kami (Izanagi and Izanami).
16 Izanaginokami Izanaginomikoto 1 2 ○ －
same as above 1 2 － 2
same as above 1 3 ○ －
same as above 1 3 － 1
- 2 - same as above 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
⑦ same as above 1 4 － 2
same as above 1 4 － 3
same as above 1 4 － 4
(Okami) 1 4 － 5
same as above 1 4 － 10
Izanaginomikoto 1 5 ○ －
same as above 1 5 － 1
⑦ same as above 1 5 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 7
same as above 1 5 － 8
same as above 1 5 － 9
same as above 1 5 － 10
same as above 1 5 － 11
same as above 1 6 ○ －
Izanaginokami 12 Sept., Richū 5(404)
17 Izanaminokami Izanaminomikoto 1 2 ○ －
same as above 1 3 ○ －
same as above 1 3 － 1
same as above 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 2
same as above 1 4 － 3
same as above 1 4 － 4
(Mekami) 1 4 － 5
same as above 1 4 － 10
Izanaminomikoto 1 5 ○ －
same as above 1 5 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 3
same as above 1 5 － 4
same as above 1 5 － 5
same as above 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 9
same as above 1 5 － 10 Kami appearing at the birth of the land (Kuniumi).
18 Hiruko Hiruko 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 10
(18 Awashima) Awajinoshima 1 4 ○ －
- 3 - same as above 1 4 － 6
same as above 1 4 － 9
same as above 1 4 － 10
Awanoshima 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 6
Ōyashimanokuni (Great-Eight-Island-Land)
19 ① －Awajinohonosawakenoshima－ Awajinoshima 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 7
same as above 1 4 － 8
② －Iyonofutananoshima－ Iyonofutananoshima 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 7
same as above 1 4 － 8
same as above 1 4 － 9
Iyonoshima 1 4 － 6
20 Ehime (Iyo province) － － － － －
21 Iiyorihiko (Sanuki province) － － － － －
22 Ōgetsuhime (Awa province) － － － － －
23 Takeyoriwake (Tosa province) － － － － －
③ －Okinomitsugonoshima－ Okinoshima + (Sadonoshima) 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 6
Okinoshima 1 4 － 7
Okinoshima + (Sadonoshima) 1 4 － 8
Okinomitsugonoshima 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 9
24 Ameno’oshikorowake － － － － －
④ －Tsukushinoshima－ Tsukushinoshima 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 6
same as above 1 4 － 7
same as above 1 4 － 8
same as above 1 4 － 9
25 Shirahiwake (Tsukushi province) － － － － －
26 Toyohiwake (Toyo province) － － － － －
Takehimukahitoyokujihinewake 27 － － － － － (Hi province)
28 Takehiwake (Kumaso province) － － － － －
⑤ －Ikinoshima－ Ikinoshima 1 4 ○ －
Ikinoshima*2 1 4 － 7
- 4 - 29 Amehitotsuhashira － － － － －
⑥ －Tsushima－ Tsushima 1 4 ○ －
Tsushima*2 1 4 － 7
30 Amenosadeyorihime － － － － －
⑦ －Sadonoshima－ Sadonoshima + (Okinoshima) 1 4 ○ －
Sadonoshima 1 4 － 1
Sadonoshima + (Okinoshima) 1 4 － 6
Sadonoshima 1 4 － 7
Sadonoshima + (Okinoshima) 1 4 － 8
Sadonoshima 1 4 － 9
⑧ －Ōyamato toyoakizu shima－ Ōyamato toyoakizu shima 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 6
same as above 1 4 － 7
same as above 1 4 － 8
same as above 1 4 － 9
31 Amatsumisoratoyoakizunewake － － － － －
－Kibinokoshima－ Kibinokoshima 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 1
same as above 1 4 － 8
same as above 1 4 － 9
32 Takehikatawake － － － － －
－Azukishima－ － － － － －
33 Ōnodehime － － － － －
－Ōshima－ Ōshima 1 4 ○ －
same as above 1 4 － 6
same as above 1 4 － 9
34 Ōtamaruwake － － － － －
－Himeshima－ － － － － －
35 Amehitotsune － － － － －
－Chikanoshima－ － － － － －
36 Ameno’oshio － － － － －
－Futagonoshima－ － － － － －
37 Amenofutaya － － － － － Kami appearing at the birth of kami after Kuniumi
38 ① Ōkoto’oshionokami － － － － －
39 ② Iwatsuchibikonokami － － － － －
40 ③ Iwasuhimenokami － － － － －
41 ④ Ōtohiwakenokami － － － － －
42 ⑤ Ameno fukionokami － － － － － - 5 - 43 ⑥ Ōyabikonokami － － － － －
44 ⑦ Kazamotsuwakeno’oshionokami － － － － － ⑧ Ōwatatsuminokami 45 Watatsuminokami 1 5 － 6 (kami of the ocean)
Watatsuminokami same as above 2 10 ○
Watatsumino’ōkami same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 2
same as above 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 10 － 4
a pre-enthronement Watatsumi 3 part of Jinmu
Watatsuminomikoto 1 5 － 6
46 Haya’akitsuhikonokami ⑨ Haya’akitsuhinomikoto 1 5 － 6 47 Haya’akitsuhimenokami
(kami of the ocean inlets and straits)
48 ① Awanaginokami Awanaginomikoto 1 2 － 2
49 ② Awanaminokami － － － － －
50 ③ Tsuranaginokami － － － － －
51 ④ Tsuranaminokami － － － － －
52 ⑤ Amenomikumarinokami － － － － －
53 ⑥ Kuninomikumarinokami － － － － －
54 ⑦ Amenokuhizamochinokami － － － － －
55 ⑧ Kuninokuhizamochinokami － － － － －
56 ① Shinatsuhikonokami Shinatsuhikonomikoto 1 5 － 6
(kami of wind) Shinatobenomikoto (a female kami) 1 5 － 6
57 ② Kukunochinokami Kukunochi 1 5 ○ －
(kami of trees) same as above 1 5 － 6
58 ③ Ōyamatsuminokami Yamatsumi 1 5 － 6
(kami of mountains) Ōyamatsuminokami 1 5 － 7
same as above (a female kami) 2 9 ○ －
same as above (a male kami) 2 9 － 2
Kurayamatsumi 1 5 － 6
Itsutsunoyamatsumi (five yamatsumi) 1 5 － 8
Ōyamatsumi [neck]*3 1 5 － 8
Nakayamatsumi [body] *3 1 5 － 8
Hayamatsumi [hand] *3 1 5 － 8
Masakayamatsumi [waist] *3 1 5 － 8
Shigiyamatsumi [foot] *3 1 5 － 8
*3: When Izanagi cut the fire kami Kagutsuchi into five pieces, each piece became a "mountain kami." These kami were
born from the body part shown in the brackets.
- 6 - 59 ④ Kayanohimenokami Kayanohime 1 5 ○ －
Nozuchinokami Nozuchi － 5 ○ －
(kami of fields) Nozuchi*2 1 7 － 2
a pre-enthronement Itsunonotsuchi 13 part of Jinmu
60 ① Amenosazuchinokami － － － － －
61 ② Kuninosazuchinokami Kuninosatsuchinomikoto 1 1 ○ －
same as above 1 1 － 1
same as above 1 1 － 2
same as above 1 1 － 4
Kuninosatachinomikoto 1 1 － 1
62 ③ Amenosagirinokami － － － － －
63 ④ Kuninosagirinokami － － － － －
64 ⑤ Amenokuratonokami － － － － －
65 ⑥ Kuninokuratonokami － － － － －
66 Ōtomatohikonokami － － － － － ⑦ 67 Ōtomatohimenokami － － － － －
68 ① Torinoiwakusufunenokami Torinoiwakusufune 1 5 2
Amenotorifune － － － － －
Amenotorifunenokami － － － － －
(22) ② Ōgetsuhimenokami － － － － －
69 Hinoyagihayaonokami Homusuhi 1 5 － 3
③ Hinokagabikonokami － － － － －
Hinokagutsuchinokami Kagutsuchi 1 5 － 2
Kagutsuchinokami same as above 1 5 － 4
same as above 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 7
Kagutsuchinomikoto 1 5 － 8 Kami born at the time of Izanami’s death [Burnt from her genitals as she gave birth to the kami of fire, Izanami fell sick and died after bearing the kami of metal, earth, water and wood.]
70 Kanayamabikonokami [vomit] *3 Kanayamabiko 1 5 － 4 ④ 71 Kanayamabimenokami same as above － － － －
72 Haniyasubikonokami [feces] *3 Haniyasunokami 1 5 － 6 ⑤ 73 Haniyasubimenokami Haniyamahime 1 5 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 3
Haniyamahime 1 5 － 4
74 ⑥ Mitsuhanomenokami [urine] *3 Mitsuhanome 1 5 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 3
same as above 1 5 － 4
Itsunomitsuhanome 3 a pre-enthronement
- 7 - part of Jinmu
*3: These kami were produced from Izanami’s body part shown in the brackets.
75 ⑦ Wakumusuhinokami Wakumusuhi 1 5 2
76 Toyoukebimenokami － － － － －
Toyoukehimenokami － － － － － Kami born at the time of Izanagi’s grief and anger [the episode in which Izanagi mourned the death of his consort Izanami and raged at Kagutsuchi for Izanami’s death].
77 Nakisawamenokami [tears] *3 Nakisawamenomikoto 1 5 － 6
*3: This kami was produced when Izanagi mourned the death of consort Izanami. It was born from the tears he cried.
78 Iwasakunokami*4 Iwasakunokami 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 7
79 Nesakunokami*4 Nesakunokami 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 7
80 Iwatsutsuno’onokami*4 Iwatsutsuno’onomikoto 1 5 － 6
(alternatively, Iwatsutsuno’onomikoto 1 5 － 6 and Iwatsutsunomenomikoto)
Iwatsutsuonokami 1 5 － 7 (a son of Nesakunokami)
Iwatsutsumenokami 1 5 － 7
Iwatsutsuno’o (children of Iwasaku 2 9 ○
Iwatsutsunome and Nesakunokami) 2 9 ○
81 Mikahayahinokami*4 Mikahayahinokami 1 5 － 6
same as above 2 9 ○ －
Mikahayahinomikoto 1 5 － 6
82 Hihayahinokami*4 Hinohayahinokami 1 5 － 6
same as above 2 9 ○ －
Hinohayahinomikoto 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 7 － 3
Hinohayahinomikoto 1 6 － 3
83 Takemikazuchino’onokami*4 Takemikazuchinokami 1 5 － 6
Takemikazuchinokami*4 same as above 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 1
same as above 2 9 － 2
a pre-enthronement Takemikazuchinokami*2 3 part of Jinmu
Futsunushinokami Takefutsunokami*4 1 5 － 7 (a son of Iwatsutsunome no kami)
same as above 2 9 ○ － (a son of Iwatsutsuno’o and Iwatsutsunome)
same as above 2 9 － 1
- 8 - same as above 2 9 － 2
Toyofutsunokami*4 － － － － －
84 Kuraokaminokami*4 Kuraokami 1 5 － 6
85 Kuramitsuhanokami*4 Kuramitsuha 1 5 － 6
*4: Kami produced when Izanagi raged at Kagutsuchi for Izanami’s death. These were produced from the blood that
flowed when he killed Kagutsuchi.
Kami born at the time of Kagutsuchi’s death [the kami shown below were produced from Kagutsuchi's dead body.]
86 Masakayamatsuminokami [head] *3 － － － － －
87 Odoyamatsuminokami [breast] *3 － － － － －
88 Okuyamatsuminokami [stomach] *3 － － － － －
89 Kurayamatsuminokami [genitals] *3 Kurayamatsumi 1 5 － 6
90 Shigiyamatsuminokami [left hand] *3 － － － － －
91 Hayamatsuminokami [right hand] *3 － － － － －
92 Harayamatsuminokami [left leg] *3 － － － － －
93 Toyamatsuminokami [right leg] *3 － － － － －
*3: When Izanagi cut the fire kami Kagutsuchi into five pieces into the body part shown in brackets, each piece became a
"mountain kami".
94 Ameno’ohahari － － － － －
Ameno’ohaharinokami － － － － －
Itsuno’ohahari Itsuno’ohasirinokami 2 9 ○ －
Itsuno’ohaharinokami － － － － － Kami born at the time of the underworld [those kami shown below were born from Izanami’s dead body when Izanagi went to the underworld to see dead Izanami again].
95 Yomotsukami Yakusanoikazuchi 1 5 － 9
[Yakusanoikazuchikami]
96 Ōikazuchi [head] *3 Ōikazuchi [same as left] *3 1 5 － 9
97 Honoikazuchi [breast] *3 Honoikazuchi [same as left] *3 1 5 － 9
98 Kuroikazuchi [stomach] *3 Kuroikazuchi [hip] *3 1 5 － 9
99 Sakuikazuchi [genitals] *3 Sakuikazuchi [same as left] 1 5 － 9
100 Wakaikazuchi [left hand] *3 Wakaikazuchi [back] *3 1 5 － 9
101 Tsuchiikazuchi [right hand] *3 Tsuchinoikazuchi [belly] *3 1 5 － 9
102 Naruikazuchi [left foot] *3 (Yamatsuchi [hand] *3) 1 5 － 9
103 Fusuikazuchi [right foot] *3 (Notsuchi [foot] *3) 1 5 － 9
*3: In the underworld, Izanagi looked upon Izanami’s rotting body which was inhabited by the "eight thunder kami."
These kami were produced from the respective part of Izanami’s body shown in brackts.
Kami appearing at the time of Izanagi’s return to the earth.
104 Yomotsushikome Yomotsushikome 1 5 － 6
Yomotsuhisame 1 5 － 6
105 Ōkamuzuminomikoto － － － － －
The name ōkamuzumi was given to the peaches that saved Izanagi during his flight from the underworld.
- 9 - Yomotsuōkami (Izanami was also called － － － － － this name in Kojiki.)
Chishikino’ōkami Chishikinokami 1 5 － 6
107 Chigaeshino’ōkami Chigaeshino’ōmikami 1 5 － 6
Yomidonisayarimasuōkami Yomidonifutagarimasuōmikami 1 5 － 6 Kami born at the time of Izanagi’s return to this world [the kami shown below were born when Izanagi returned from the underworld and purified himself].
108 ① Tsukitatsufunatonokami [stick] *3 Funatonokami [stick] *3 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 9
same as above 2 9 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 7
Kunatonosaenokami 1 5 － 9 (the original name of Funatonokami)
109 ② Michinonagachihanokami [belt] *3 Nagachihanokami [belt] *3 1 5 － 6
110 ③ Tokihakashinokami [bag] *3 － － － － －
111 ④ Wazurainōshinokami [clothes] *3 Wazurainokami [clothes] *3 1 5 － 6
112 ⑤ Chimatanokami [formal trousers] *3 － － － － －
113 ⑥ Akiguinōshinokami [headdress] *3 Akikuinokami 1 5 － 6 ⑦ Okizakarunokami [bracelets on his 114 － － － － － left arm] *3
115 ⑧ Okitsunagisabikonokami － － － － －
116 ⑨ Okitsukaiberanokami － － － － － ⑩ Hezakarunokami [bracelets on his 117 － － － － － right arm] *3
118 ⑪ Hetsunagisabikonokami － － － － －
119 ⑫ Hetsukaiberanokami － － － － －
*3: The kami shown below were born from the respective parts of Izanagi’s body shown in brackts, when Izanagi
purified himself.
Kami(120-124) that were born when Izanagi purified himself in the middle part of the river.
120 Yasomagatsuhinokami Yasomagatsuhinokami 1 5 － 6
121 Ōmagatsuhinokami － － － － －
122 Kamunahobinokami Kamunahohinokami 1 5 － 6
123 Ōnahobinokami Ōnahohinokami 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 10
124 Izunome － － － － －
Kami(125,126) that were born when Izanagi purified himself in the bottom of the water.
125 Sokotsuwatatsuminokami Sokotsuwatatsuminomikoto 1 5 － 6
126 Sokotsutsuno’onomikoto Sokotsutsuno’onomikoto 1 5 － 6
Sokotsutsuno’o Sokotsutsuno’onokami 9 Mar., Chūai 9 (200) (described as in the second volume)
- 10 - Sokotsutsuno’o 9 Dec., Chūai 9 (200)
Feb., Jingū Kōgō 1 same as above 9 (201)
Sokotsutsuno’o*2 9 Dec., Chūai 9 (200)
Sokotsutsuno’onomikoto 1 5 － 10
Kami(127,128) that were born when Izanagi purified himself in the middle of the water.
127 Nakatsuwatatsuminokami Nakatsuwatatsuminomikoto 1 5 － 6
128 Nakatsutsuno’onomikoto Nakatsutsuonomikoto 1 5 － 6
Nakatsutsuno’o Nakatsutsuno’o 9 Mar., Chūai 9 (200) (described as in the second volume)
same as above 9 Dec., Chūai 9 (200)
Feb., Jingū Kōgō 1 same as above 9 (201)
Nakatsutsuno’o*2 9 Dec., Chūai 9 (200)
Kami(129-131) that were born when Izanagi purified himself on the surface of the water.
129 Uwatsuwatatsuminokami Uwatsuwatatsuminomikoto 1 5 － 6
130 Uwatsutsuno’onomikoto Uwatsutsuno’onomikoto 1 5 － 6
Uwatsutsuno’o Uwatsutsuno’o 9 Mar., Chūai 9 (200)
(described as in the second volume) same as above 9 Dec., Chūai 9 (200)
Feb., Jingū Kōgō 1 same as above 9 (201)
Uwatsutsuno’o*2 9 Dec.,Chūai 9(200)
Suminoenomimaeno’ōkami Suminoeno’ōmikami 1 5 － 6
126/12 Suminoeno’ōkami same as above 17 Dec., Keitai6 (512)
8/130 (described as in the second volume) same as above 29 July, Shuchō1 (686)
Suminoe and Kiinoōkami 30 May, Jitō (692)
131 Utsushihikanasakunomikoto － － － － －
The birth of three noble children [Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susano’o.]
132 Amaterasuōmikami [left eye] *3 Ōhirumenomuchi 1 5 ○ －
Amaterasuōhirumenomikoto 1 5 ○ －
Ōhirume no mikoto 1 5 － 1
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Amaterasuōkami Amaterasuōmikami 1 5 ○ －
(described as in the second volume) same as above 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 11
same as above 1 6 ○ －
same as above 1 6 － 2
- 11 - same as above 1 7 ○ －
same as above 1 7 1 －
same as above 2 9 － 1
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
same as above 5 Sujin 6 (92 B.C.)
Mar., Suinin 25 (5 same as above 6 B.C.)
same as above 7 Feb., Keikō 20 (90)
Feb., Jingū Kōgō 1 same as above 9 (201)
Hinokami Hinokami 1 5 ○ －
(described as in the second volume) same as above 1 6 － 1
same as above 1 6 － 3
same as above 1 7 － 2
same as above 1 7 － 3
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
same as above 15 Apr., Kensō 3 (487)
a pre-enthronement same as above 21 part of Yōmei
Hinokaminomikoto 1 7 － 2
Iseno’ōmikami 17 Mar., Keitai 1 (507)
133 Tsukuyominomikoto [right eye] *3 Tsukinokami 1 5 ○ －
same as above 15 Feb., Kensō 3 (487)
Tsukuyuminomikoto 1 5 ○ －
same as above 1 5 － 1
Tsukyominomikoto 1 5 ○ －
same as above 1 5 － 6
Tsukuyominomikoto 1 5 ○ －
same as above 1 5 － 11
134 Takehayasusano’onomikoto [nose] *3 Susano’onomikoto 1 5 ○ －
Hayasusano’onomikoto same as above 1 5 － 1
Susano’onomikoto same as above 1 5 － 2
same as above 1 5 － 6
same as above 1 5 － 11
same as above 1 6 ○ －
same as above 1 6 － 1
same as above 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
- 12 - same as above 1 7 ○ －
same as above 1 7 － 1
same as above 1 7 － 2
same as above 1 7 － 3
same as above 1 8 ○ －
same as above 1 8 － 1
same as above 1 8 － 2
same as above 1 8 － 3
same as above 1 8 － 4
same as above 1 8 － 5
Kamususano’onomikoto 1 5 ○ －
Hayasusano’onomikoto 1 5 ○ －
Takesusano’onomikoto 1 8 ○ －
135 Mikuratananokami [jewel necklace]*3 － － － － －
*3: These kami were produced from the body part of Izanagi when Izanagi purified himself. "Five male and three female kami" [Kami produced as a result of Amaterasu and Susano’o trial by pledge (ukei).]
136 Takiribimenomikoto Takorihime 1 6 ○ －
① same as above 1 6 － 1
① Takorihimenomikoto 1 6 － 2
Tagirihimenomikoto 1 6 － 3
Okitsushimahimenomikoto Okitsushimahime 1 6 － 1
Itsukishimahime 1 6 ○ －
② Itsukishimahimenomikoto 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
Okitsushimahimenomikoto 1 6 － 3
137 Ichikishimahimenomikoto － － － － － ② Sayoribimenomikoto － － － － －
138 Takitsuhimenomikoto*2 Tagitsuhime 1 6 ○ － ③ Takitsuhimenomikoto*2 ③ same as above 1 6 － 1
Tagitsuhimenomikoto 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
139 ① Masakatsuakatsukachihayahi Masaka’akatsukachihayahi ameno’oshihomiminomikoto [the jewels 1 6 ○ － amano’oshihomiminomikoto wound up in Amaterasu's left coil of hair] *3
Ameno’shihomiminomikoto same as above 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 1
same as above 2 9 － 8
Masaka’akatsukachihayahi 1 6 － 1 amano’oshihonenomikoto
same as above 1 6 － 2
- 13 - Masaka’akatsukachihayahi 1 7 － 3 amano’oshihonenomikoto
Kachihayahiamano’oshihomimi 1 6 － 3 nomikoto
same as above 2 9 － 1
Amano’oshihomiminomikoto 2 9 － 2
Amano’oshihomiminomikoto 2 9 － 7
140 ② Amenohohinomikoto[the jewels wound Amanohohinomikoto 1 6 ○ － up in Amaterasu's right coil of hair] *3
Amenohohinomikoto same as above 1 6 － 1
Amenohohinokami same as above 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
same as above 1 7 － 3
same as above 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 2
141 ③ Amatsuhikonenomikoto [the vine used Amatsuhikonenomikoto 1 6 ○ － to bind up Amaterasu's hair] *3
same as above 1 6 － 1
same as above 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
same as above 1 7 － 3
142 ④ Ikutsuhikonenomikoto[the jewels worn Ikutsuhikonenomikoto 1 6 ○ － on Amaterasu's left arm] *3
same as above 1 6 － 1
same as above 1 6 － 2
same as above 1 6 － 3
Ikumetsuhikonenomikoto 1 7 － 3
143 ⑤ Kumanokusubinomikoto [the jewels Kumanonokusubinomikoto 1 6 ○ － worn on Amaterasu's right arm] *3
same as above 1 6 － 2
Kumanono’oshihominomikoto 1 6 － 1
same as above 1 6 － 3
Kumanono’oshikumanomikoto 1 6 － 3
Kumanono’ōkumanomikoto 1 7 － 3
144 Takehiratorinomikoto Takehinaterunomikoto July, Sujin60 (38 5 (alternatively, Takehinatori or Amehinatori) B.C.)
Kami appearing at the time of Amanoiwato [the episode in which Amaterasu hid away in the Rock Cave and the Plain of High Heaven fell into darkness and chaos].
145 Omohikanenokami Omohikanenokami 1 7 ○ －
Tokoyono’omohikanenokami same as above 1 7 － 1
- 14 - (appearing at the time of Tensonkōrin)
same as above 2 9 － 1
146 a pre-enthronement Amatsumara (Kanuchi) Amatsumara (Yamatonokanuchi) 4 part of Suizei
147 Ishikoridomenomikoto Ishikoridome 1 7 － 1
Ishikoritobe 1 7 － 3
Ishikoridomenomikoto (ancestral deity of 2 9 － 1 the mirror-making clan)
148 Toyotama (ancestral deity of the clan that Tamanoyanomikoto 1 7 － 2 manufactured magatama)
Amanoakarutama (ancestral deity of the 1 7 － 3 clan that manufactured magatama)
Tamanoyanomikoto (ancestral deity of the 2 9 － 1 clan that manufactured magatama)
149 Amenokoyanenomikoto (an ancester of the Amenokoyanenomikoto 1 7 ○ － Nakatomi clan)
same as above 1 7 － 2
same as above 1 7 － 3
same as above 2 9 － 1
same as above 2 9 － 2
Nakatominokami 1 7 ○ －
150 Futodamanomikoto (an ancester of the Inbe Futodamanomikoto 1 7 ○ － clan)
same as above 1 7 － 3
same as above 2 9 － 1
same as above 2 9 － 2
Futodama 1 7 － 2
Inbenokami 1 7 ○ －
151 Amenotajikaraonokami Tachikaraonokami 1 7 ○ －
Amanotachikaraonokami 1 7 － 3
152 Amanouzumenomikoto (an ancester of the Amenouzumenomikoto 1 7 ○ － Sarumenokimi clan)
same as above 2 9 － 1
Amenouzume Amanouzume 1 7 － 3
same as above 2 9 － 1
153 Ōketsuhimenokami － － － － －
Ōgetsuhimenokami →22 － － － － － Kami appearing during the episode in which Susano’o exterminated the great serpent Yamatano’orochi.
154 Ashinazuchi Ashinazuchi 1 8 ○ －
- 15 - Ashinazuchinokami same as above 1 8 － 3
Ashinazuchinokami Inadanomiyanushinokami 1 8 ○ －
Inadanomiyanushisuganoyatsumimi Inadanomiyanushisusanoyatsumimi 1 8 － 1
nokami Ashinazutenazu 1 8 － 2
155 Tenazuchi Tenazuchi 1 8 ○ －
Tenazuchinokami same as above 1 8 － 3
Inadanomiyanushisusanoyatsumimi 1 8 － 2
156 Kushinadahime Kushiinadahime 1 8 ○ －
Inadahime 1 8 － 1
Makamifurukushiinadahime 1 8 － 2 Descendent Kami of Susano’o.
157 Suganoyuyamanushiminasaruhiko Yashimajinuminokami 1 8 － 1 yashimashino
Suganoyuhinasakakaruhikoyashimade 1 8 － 1 nomikoto
Suganoyuyamanushiminasaruhiko 1 8 － 1 yashimano
158 Kamuōchihime － － － － －
159 Ōtoshinokami － － － － －
160 Ukanomitamanokami Ukanomitamanomikoto 1 5 － 6
Ukanomitama 1 5 － 7
161 Konohanachiruhime － － － － －
cf. Konohananosakuyabime － － － － －
162 Fuhanomojikunusununokami － － － － －
163 Okaminokami － － － － －
164 Hikawahime － － － － －
165 Fukafuchinomizuyarehananokami － － － － －
166 Amenotsudohechinenokami － － － － －
167 Omizununokami － － － － －
168 Funozununokami － － － － －
169 Futemiminokami － － － － －
170 Amenofuyukinunokami － － － － －
171 Sashikuniōkami － － － － －
172 Sashikuniwakahime － － － － －
173 Ōkuninushinokami Ōkuninushinokami 1 8 － 1
Ōanamujinokami same as above 1 8 － 6
Ashiharanoshiko’onokami Ōanamuchinokami 1 8 ○ －
Yachihokonokami same as above 1 8 6
Utsushikunutamanokami same as above 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 1
- 16 - same as above 2 9 － 2
Apr., Jinmu31 (630 Ōanamuchino’ōkami 3 B.C.)
Ōanamuchinomikoto 1 8 － 2
Ōanamuchi 1 8 － 2
Ōmononushinokami 1 8 － 6
Kunitsukurino’ōanamuchinomikoto 1 8 － 6
Ashiharanoshiko’o 1 8 － 6
Yachihokonokami 1 8 － 6
Ōkunitamanokami 1 8 － 6
Utsushikunitamanokami 1 8 － 6 Kami related to the episodes involving Ōkuninushi.
174 Inabanoyakamihime － － － － －
Yakamihime － － － － －
Kami(175) appearing during the episode of Inaba no shiro usage (a white rabbit of Inaba Province).
175 Usagikami － － － － －
Kami(176,177) appearing during the episode in which Ōkuninushi was killed by his elder brothers and revived by his mother.
176 Kisakigaihime － － － － －
177 Umugaihime － － － － －
Kami(178,179) appearing during the episode in which Ōkuninushi visited Nenokuni (underworld) and overcome various trials there.
178 Suseribime － － － － －
Suseribime － － － － －
179 Kimatanokami － － － － －
Miinokami － － － － －
Kami(180) appearing during the episode in which Ōkuninushi porposed marriage to Nunakawahime.
180 Nunakawahime － － － － － Descendent Kami of Ōkuninushi.
181 Ajisukitakahikonenokami Ajisukitakahikonenokami 2 9 ○ －
Ajishikitakahikonenokami － － － － －
Ajishikitakahikonenokami － － － － －
Kamono’ōmikami － － － － －
182 Takahimenomikoto Shitaderuhime 2 9 ○ －
Shitaderuhimenomikoto same as above 2 9 － 1
Shitaderuhime Takahime 2 9 ○ －
Wakakunitama 2 9 ○ －
183 Kamuyatatehimenomikoto same as above － － － －
184 Kotoshironushinokami Kotoshironushinokami 1 8 － 6
Yaekotoshironushinokami same as above 2 9 ○ －
Yaekotoshironushinokami same as above 2 9 － 2
- 17 - a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
same as above 28 July, Tenmu1 (672)
Kotoshironushi 2 9 － 1
Amenikotoshirosoranikotoshiro a pre-enthronement 9 tamakushiiribikoitsunokotoshironokami part of Jigū Kōgō
Feb., Jingū Kōgō 1 Kotoshironushinomikoto 9 (201)
185 Yashimamujinokami － － － － －
186 Totorinokami － － － － －
187 Torinaruminokami － － － － －
188 Hinaterunukatabichioikochini － － － － － nokami
189 Kunioshitominokami － － － － －
190 Ashinadakanokami － － － － －
Yakawaehime － － － － －
191 Hayamikanotakesawayajinumi － － － － － nokami
192 Amenomikanushinokami － － － － －
193 Sakitamahime － － － － －
194 Mikanushihikonokami － － － － －
195 Hinarashibime － － － － －
196 Tahirikishimaruminokami － － － － －
197 Hihiraginosonohanamazuminokami － － － － －
198 Ikutamasakitamahimenokami － － － － －
199 Mironaminokami － － － － －
200 Shikiyamanushinokami － － － － －
201 Aonu’umanuoshihime － － － － －
202 Nuno’oshitomitorinaruminokami － － － － －
203 Wakatsukushimenokami － － － － －
204 Amenohibarano’ōshinadominokami － － － － －
205 Tōtsumachinenokami － － － － －
206 Tōtsuyamasakitarashinokami － － － － － Kami appearing during the episode in which Ōkuninushi formed the land.
207 Kuebiko － － － － －
Yamadanosohodo － － － － －
208 Sukunabikonanokami Sukunahikonanomikoto 1 8 － 6 Descendent Kami of Ōtoshi no kami
209 Kamuikusubikami － － － － －
210 Inohime － － － － －
- 18 - 211 ① Ōkunimitamanokami － － － － －
212 ② Karanokami － － － － －
213 ③ Sohorinokami － － － － －
214 ④ Shirahinokami － － － － －
215 ⑤ Hijirinokami － － － － －
216 Kaguyohime － － － － －
217 ① Ōkaguyamatominokami － － － － －
218 ② Mitoshinokami － － － － －
219 Amechikarumizuhime － － － － －
220 Okitsuhikonokami － － － － － ① 221 Okitsuhimenomikoto － － － － －
Ōhehimenokami － － － － －
222 ② Ōyamakuinokami － － － － －
Yamasueno’ōnushinokami － － － － －
223 ③ Niwatsuhinokami － － － － －
224 ④ Asuwanokami － － － － －
225 ⑤ Hahikinokami － － － － －
226 ⑥ Kaguyamatominokami － － － － －
227 ⑦ Hayamatonokami － － － － －
228 ⑧ Niwatakatsuhinokami － － － － －
229 ⑨ Ōtsuchinokami － － － － －
Tsuchinomioyanokami － － － － －
230 ① Wakayamakuinokami － － － － －
231 ② Wakatoshinokami － － － － －
232 ③ Wakasanamenokami － － － － －
233 ④ Mizumakinokami － － － － －
234 ⑤ Natsutakatsuhinokami － － － － －
Natsunomenokami － － － － －
235 ⑥ Akibimenokami － － － － －
236 ⑦ Kukutoshinokami － － － － －
237 ⑧ Kukukiwakamurotsunanenokami － － － － － Kami appearing during the episode of Ashihara no nakatsu kuni.
238 Amatsukunitamanokami Amatsukunitama 2 9 ○ －
Kami(239,240) dispatched from Takamanohara to Ashihara no nakatsu kuni.
239 Amenowakahiko Amewakahiko 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 1
same as above 2 9 － 6
240 Nakime (or Nakimekigishi) Nanashikigishi 2 9 ○ －
Nanashionokigishi 2 9 － 6
Nanashimenokigishi 2 9 － 6
- 19 - Kami(239,240) appearing during the episode in which Amenowakahiko rebelled against Takamanohara and later died.
241 Amenosagume Amanosagume 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 1
242 Takaginokami － － － － －
Takagino’ōkami (appearing in the － － － － － second volume) →2
243 Amenokakunokami － － － － － Kami appearing during the episode of Kuniyuzuri (transfer of the land) by Ōkuninushi.
244 Takeminakatanokami － － － － －
245 Kushiyatamanokami － － － － － Descendent Kami of Amaterasu. Kami(246-248) appearing during the Tenson kōrin episode when it was decided in Takamanohara that Ninigi would descend to earth.
246 Amenikishikuninikishiamatsuhikohi Amatsuhikohikohononiniginomikoto 2 9 ○ －
kohononiniginomikoto same as above 2 9 － 1
Hikohononiniginomikoto Amatsuhikohononiniginomikoto 2 9 － 2
Amatsuhikokuniteruhikohononinigi 2 9 － 4 nomikoto
Amatsuhikohononiniginomikoto Amatsuhikonehononiniginenomikoto 2 9 － 6
Amatsuhikohikohononiniginomikoto Amekuninigishihikohononiniginomikoto 2 9 － 6
Amanogihoho’okisenomikoto 2 9 － 7
Amanokisenomikoto 2 9 － 7
Hononiniginomikoto 2 9 － 7
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Amenigishikuninigishiamatsuhikohono 2 9 － 8 niniginomikoto
a pre-enthronement Hikohononiniginomikoto 3 part of Jinmu
247 Yorozuhatatoyoakizushihime Takuhatachijihime 2 9 ○
Yorozuhatatoyoakitsuhimenomikoto 2 9 － 1
Yorozuhatahime 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 7
Takuhatachijihimeyorozuhatahime 2 9 － 6 nomikoto
Chijihimenomikoto 2 9 － 6
Amayorozutakuhatachihatahime 2 9 － 7
same as above 2 9 － 8
Takuhata chihata hime 2 9 － 7
- 20 - 248 Amenohoakarinomikoto Amanohoakarinomikoto 2 9 － 6
Amaterukuniteruhikohonoakari 2 9 － 8 nomikoto
Kami(249-253) appearing during the Tensonkōrin episode as Ninigi began the process of creating a kami lineage among humans.
249 Sarutabikonokami Sarutahikono’ōkami 2 9 － 1
Sarutabikono’onokami Sarutahikonokami 2 9 － 1
Sokodokumitama － － － － －
Tsubutatsumitama － － － － －
Awasakumitama － － － － －
250 Amenoiwatowakenokami － － － － －
Kushiiwamadonokami － － － － －
Toyoiwamadonokami － － － － －
251 Toyukenokami － － － － －
252 Ameno’oshihinomikoto Amano’oshihinomikoto 2 9 － 4
253 Amatsukumenomikoto Amekushitsuno’ōkume 2 9 － 4
Kami(254,255) appearing during the episode in which Ninigi(Amatsukami) married Konohananosakuyahime(Kunitsu kami).
254 Kamuatatsuhime Kashitsuhime 2 9 ○ －
Konohananosakuyabime Kamuatatsuhime 2 9 ○ －
Sakuyabime Kamuatakashitsuhime 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 3
Atakashitsuhime 2 9 － 5
Toyoatatsuhime 2 9 － 6
Atatsuhime 2 9 － 7
Konohananosakuyahime*2 2 9 ○ －
Konohananosakuyahime*2 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 6
Konohanasakuyahimenomikoto 2 9 － 8
255 Iwanagahime Iwanagahime 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 6
Kami(256-258) appearing during the episode involving Umisachihbiko and Yamasachibiko, who were offspring of Ninigi and Konohanasakuyahime.
256 ① Hoderinomikoto (a first child) Honosusorinomikoto 2 9 ○
same as above 2 10 ○
Honosuserinomikoto 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 6
same as above 2 9 － 8
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 3
- 21 - same as above 2 10 － 4
Honoakarinomikoto 2 9 － 3
same as above 2 9 － 5
same as above 2 9 － 7
Umisachibiko Uminosachibiko 2 10 － 3
257 ② Hosuserinomikoto (a second child) Hikohohodeminomikoto 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 8
Honoakarinomikoto 2 9 － 2
Honosusuminomikoto 2 9 － 3 (aka. Honosuserinomikoto)
same as above 2 9 － 5
Ho’orinomikoto 2 9 － 6 (aka. Hikohohodeminomikoto)
Honoyorinomikoto 2 9 － 7
258 ③ Ho’orinomikoto (a third child) Honoakarinomikoto 2 9 ○ －
Hikohohodeminomikoto Amatsuhikohikohohodeminomikoto 2 9 － 2 (aka. Hono’orinomikoto)
same as above (a forth child) 2 9 － 5
same as above 2 9 － 7
same as above 2 10 ○ －
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 2
same as above 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 10 － 4
Hono’orihikohohodeminomikoto 2 9 － 3
Hono’orinomikoto 2 9 － 5
same as above 2 10 － 4
Yamasachibiko Yamanosachibiko 2 10 － 3
Soratsuhiko － － － － －
Hiko － － － － －
Kami(259) appearing at the episode in which Yamasachibiko visited the palace of the kami of the sea.
259 Shiotsuchinokami Kotokatsukunikatsunagasa 2 9 ○ －
same as above 2 9 － 2
same as above 2 9 － 4
same as above 2 9 － 6
Kotokatsukunikatsunokami 2 9 － 4
Shiotsutsuno’oji 2 9 － 4
same as above 2 10 ○ －
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 3
- 22 - a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Shiotsutsuno’oji 2 10 － 4
Kami(260-267) appearing during the episode in which Toyotamahime married Yamasachibiko and bore a child, Ugayafukiaezunomikoto.
260 Toyotamabime Toyotamahime 2 10 ○ －
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 2
same as above 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 10 － 4
Toyotamabimenomikoto Toyotamahimenomikoto 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 10 － 4
a pre-enthronement Watatsumi 3 part of Jinmu
261 Saimochinokami － － － － －
262 Amatsuhikohikonagisatake Hikonagisatakeugayafukiaezunomikoto 2 10 ○ － ukayafukiaezunomikoto
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 11 ○ －
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
263 Tamayoribime Tamayorihime 2 10 ○ －
same as above 2 10 － 1
same as above 2 10 － 3
same as above 2 10 － 4
same as above 2 11 ○ －
same as above 3 a pre-enthronement
Watatsumi 3 part of Jinmu
264 ① Itsusenomikoto Itsusenomikoto 2 11 － 2
same as above 3 a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu same as above 3
Hikoitsusenomikoto 2 11 ○ －
same as above 2 11 － 1
same as above 2 11 － 3
same as above 2 11 － 4
265 ② Inainomikoto Inainomikoto 2 11 ○ －
same as above 2 11 － 1
same as above (a third child) 2 11 － 2
- 23 - same as above 2 11 － 3
a pre-enthronement same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Hikoinainomikoto (a third child) 2 11 － 4
266 ③ Mikenunomikoto Mikeirinonomikoto 2 11 ○ －
same as above 2 11 － 1
same as above (a forth child) 2 11 － 4
a pre-enthronement Mikeirinonomikoto 3 part of Jinmu
Mikenonomikoto (a second child) 2 11 － 2
Wakamikenonomikoto (a forth child) 2 11 － 3
267 ④ Wakamikenunomikoto Sanonomikoto 2 11 － 1
Toyomikenunomikoto － － － － －
Kamuyamatoiwarebikonomikoto Kamuyamatoiwarebikonomikoto 2 11 ○ －
same as above 2 11 － 1
Kamuyamatoiwarebikohohodemi 2 11 － 2 nomikoto (a third child)
Iwarebikonomikoto 2 11 － 2
Iwarebikohohodeminomikoto 2 11 － 4 (a second child)
Kamuyamatoiwarehikonosumeramikoto a pre-enthronement 3 －Emperor Jinmu part of Jinmu
a pre-enthronement same as above 4 part of Suizei
Kamuyamatoiwarebikohohodemino Jan., Jinmu1 (660 3 sumeramikoto B.C.) second volume
268 Saonetsuhiko Shiinetsuhiko 3
same as above 3 a pre-enthronement
same as above 3 part of Jinmu
Uzuhiko 3
Jan., Jinmu2 (659 same as above 3 B.C.)
269 Sajifutsunokami － － － － －
Mikafutsunokami － － － － －
Futsunomitama － － － － －
270 Niemotsunoko Niemotsugako 3 a pre-enthronement 271 Ihika Ihika 3 part of Jinmu 272 Iwaoshiwakunoko Iwaoshiwakugako 3
- 24 - 273 Ōmononushinokami Ōmononushinokami 2 9 － 2
same as above 5 Feb., Sujin7(91 B.C.)
same as above 5 Sep.,Sujin10(88B.C.)
Ōmononushino’ōkami 5 Aug.,Sujin7(91B.C.)
same as above 5 Nov., Sujin7(91B.C.)
Ōmiwano’ōkami 5 Dec.,Sujin8(90B.C.)
Ōmikami 5 Sep.,Sujin10(88B.C.)
Mimoro’okanokami 14
Ōmononushinokami 14 July, Yūryaku7 (463)
Udanosumisakanokami 14
274 Amenomikagenokami － － － － －
275 Feb., Jingū Kōgō13 Izasawakeno’ōkaminomikoto Kehino’ōmikami 9 (213)
a pre-enthronement same as above 10 part of Ōjin
Miketsuōkami Kehinokami 13 Sep., Jitō (692)
Kehino’ōkami － － － － －
276 Akaruhimenokami － － － － －
277 Izushinoyamaeno’ōkami － － － － －
278 Izushiotomenokami － － － － －
279 Akiyamanoshitahiotoko － － － － －
280 Haruyamanokasumiotoko － － － － － third volume
281 Magakotomohitokoto
yogotomohitokoto Feb., Yūryaku4 Hitokotonushinokami 14 kotosakanokamikazurakino (460) hitokotonushino’ōkami
Hitokotonushino’ōkami － － － －
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