Izanagi
Sign in to saveIzanagi (イザナギ/伊邪那岐/伊弉諾), formally referred to with a divine honorific as , is the creator deity (kami) of both creation and life in Japanese mythology. He and his sister-wife Izanami are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested after the formation of heaven and earth. Izanagi and Izanami are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi, and the storm god Susanoo. He is a god that can be said to be the beginning of the current Japanese imperial family.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Japanese
- Deity.name
- Izanagi-no-Mikoto
- Deity.image
- Kobayashi Izanami and Izanagi.jpg
- Deity.caption
- . Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, 1880-90 (MFA, Boston). Izanagi with the spear Ame-no-Nuboko (Tenkei) to the right, Izanami to the left.
- Deity.god_of
- Primordial god of creation and life
- Deity.script_name
- Japanese
- Deity.script
- 伊邪那岐命, 伊耶那岐命, 伊弉諾尊
- Deity.other_names
- Izanagi-no-Kami (伊邪那岐神)Izanagi-no-Ōkami (伊邪那岐大神)Kumano-Hayatama-no-Ōkami (熊野速玉大神)
- Deity.cult_center
- Taga Taisha, Izanagi Shrine, Eda Shrine, Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Onokorojima Shrine, Mitsumine Shrine and others
- Deity.consort
- Izanami
- Deity.parents
- None (, Nihon Shoki)Aokashikine-no-Mikoto (Shoki)Awanagi-no-Mikoto (Shoki) Omodaru and Ayakashikone
- Deity.siblings
- Izanami
- Deity.children
- AmaterasuTsukuyomiSusanooHirukoKagu-tsuchi(and others)
- Deity.texts
- , Nihon Shoki, Sendai Kuji Hongi
- Deity.region
- Japan
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14 sectionsContents
- Name
- Mythology
- In the ''Kojiki''
- The birth of the land
- Descent into Yomi
- Purification (''Misogi'')
- Izanagi and Susanoo
- In the ''Nihon Shoki''
- In Tenrikyo
- Genealogy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Izanagi (イザナギ/伊邪那岐/伊弉諾), formally referred to with a divine honorific as , is the creator deity (kami) of both creation and life in Japanese mythology. He and his sister-wife Izanami are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested after the formation of heaven and earth. Izanagi and Izanami are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi, and the storm god Susanoo. He is a god that can be said to be the beginning of the current Japanese imperial family.
==Name== His name is given in the () both as Izanagi-no-Kami (伊邪那岐神) and Izanagi-no-Mikoto (伊邪那岐命), while the Nihon Shoki (720 AD) refers to him as Izanagi-no-Mikoto, with the name written in different characters (伊弉諾尊).