Izanami
Sign in to saveAlso known as 伊弉冉尊, Izanami-no-Mikoto, 伊邪那美命, she who invites, Izanami-no-kami
, formally referred to with the honorific , is the creator of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested after the formation of heaven and earth. Izanami and Izanagi 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. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family. In Shinto and Japane
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Shinto
- Deity.name
- Izanami-no-Mikoto
- Deity.deity_of
- Primordial goddess of creation and death
- Deity.image
- Kobayashi Izanami and Izanagi.jpg
- Deity.caption
- . Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, 1880-90 (MFA, Boston). Izanagi with the spear to the right, Izanami to the left.
- Deity.other_names
- Izanami-no-Kami (伊弉冉神) Izanami-no-Mikoto (伊邪那美命) Yomotsu Okami (黄泉津大神) Chishiki no Okami (道敷大神)
- Deity.script_name
- Japanese
- Deity.script
- 伊邪那美
- Deity.cult_center
- Taga Taisha
- Deity.consort
- Izanagi
- Deity.parents
- None (, )Aokashikine-no-Mikoto (Shoki)Awanagi-no-Mikoto (Shoki) Omodaru and Ayakashikone.
- Deity.siblings
- Izanagi
- Deity.children
- AmaterasuTsukuyomiSusanooHirukoKagu-tsuchi(and others)
- Deity.texts
- , , Sendai Kuji Hongi
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.region
- Japan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Kobayashi Izanami and Izanagi.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Izanami
- name in kana
- いざなみのみこと
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- Goddess of creation
- In the ''Kojiki''
- Death and the underworld
- In the ''Nihonshoki''
- In Tenrikyo
- In popular culture
- Genealogy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
, formally referred to with the honorific , is the creator of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested after the formation of heaven and earth. Izanami and Izanagi 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. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family. In Shinto and Japanese mythology, Izanami gave humans death, so she is sometimes seen as a shinigami.
==Name== Her name is given in the () both as Izanami-no-Kami (伊弉冉神) and Izanami-no-Mikoto (伊邪那美命), while the (720 AD) refers to her as Izanami-no-Mikoto, with the name written in different characters (伊弉冉尊).