Nakatomi clan

Shinto shrine in Kashima, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan

Japanese aristocratic kin group (uji)

Shinto shrine in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami and a male deity in Japanese mythology and Shinto. He is the ancestral god of the Nakatomi clan, and Fujiwara no Kamatari, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan. An Amatsukami, 'Kami of heaven', he resides in Takamagahara.

Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Norito in Shinto rituals