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interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitolox%C3%ADa_xaponesa" title="Mitoloxía xaponesa – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mitoloxía xaponesa" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapon_mifologiyas%C4%B1" title="Yapon mifologiyası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Yapon mifologiyası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologi_Japang" title="Mitologi Japang – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Mitologi Japang" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologia_japonesa" title="Mitologia japonesa – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mitologia japonesa" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonsk%C3%A1_mytologie" title="Japonská mytologie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Japonská mytologie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanische_Mythologie" title="Japanische Mythologie – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Japanische Mythologie" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BC%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Ιαπωνική μυθολογία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ιαπωνική μυθολογία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitolog%C3%ADa_japonesa" title="Mitología japonesa – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mitología japonesa" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japana_mitologio" title="Japana mitologio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Japana mitologio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japoniar_mitologia" title="Japoniar mitologia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Japoniar mitologia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C_%DA%98%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C" title="اسطوره‌شناسی ژاپنی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسطوره‌شناسی ژاپنی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologie_japonaise" title="Mythologie japonaise – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mythologie japonaise" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%BC%EB%B3%B8_%EC%8B%A0%ED%99%94" title="일본 신화 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="일본 신화" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%83%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%A4%D5%AB%D6%81%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Ճապոնական դիցաբանություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ճապոնական դիցաբանություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%82" title="जापानी पौराणिक कथाओं – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="जापानी पौराणिक कथाओं" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanska_mitologija" title="Japanska mitologija – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Japanska mitologija" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologi_Jepang" title="Mitologi Jepang – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mitologi Jepang" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologia_japonese" title="Mythologia japonese – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Mythologia japonese" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologia_giapponese" title="Mitologia giapponese – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mitologia giapponese" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA" title="מיתולוגיה יפנית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מיתולוגיה יפנית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologi_Jepang" title="Mitologi Jepang – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Mitologi Jepang" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="იაპონური მითოლოგია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="იაპონური მითოლოგია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologia_Iaponiae" title="Mythologia Iaponiae – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mythologia Iaponiae" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japon%C5%B3_mitologija" title="Japonų mitologija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Japonų mitologija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap%C3%A1n_mitol%C3%B3gia" title="Japán mitológia – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Japán mitológia" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Јапонска митологија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Јапонска митологија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologi_Jepun" title="Mitologi Jepun – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mitologi Jepun" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitologi_Japang" title="Mitologi Japang – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Mitologi Japang" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%95%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%92%E1%80%8F%E1%80%B9%E1%80%8D%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE" title="ဂျပန်ဒဏ္ဍာရီ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဂျပန်ဒဏ္ဍာရီ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li 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style="background-color:#b0000f"><span style="color:white">Part of a series on</span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background-color:#b0000f;font-size:150%; color:white"><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><span style="color:White;">Japanese mythology</span></a> and <a href="/wiki/Japanese_folklore" title="Japanese folklore"><span style="color:White;">folklore</span></a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg/150px-Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg/225px-Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg/300px-Amaterasu_cave_wide.jpg 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="660" 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of Japanese deities">Divinities</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amaterasu" title="Amaterasu">Amaterasu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ame-no-Uzume" title="Ame-no-Uzume">Ame-no-Uzume</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inari_%C5%8Ckami" title="Inari Ōkami">Inari</a> </i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Izanagi" title="Izanagi">Izanagi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Izanami" title="Izanami">Izanami</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kami" title="Kami">Kami</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My%C5%8Djin" title="Myōjin">Myōjin</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Lucky_Gods" title="Seven Lucky Gods">Seven Lucky Gods</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto" title="Susanoo-no-Mikoto">Susanoo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tsukuyomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsukuyomi">Tsukuyomi</a></i></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color:#b0000f;border-top:solid 1px #aaa;background:#FFCCCB;"> <a 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href="/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto" title="Susanoo-no-Mikoto">Susanoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto" title="Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto">Tsukuyomi</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#b0000f;;background:#FFCCCB;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Shinto_texts" title="Shinto texts">Important literature</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Kojiki" title="Kojiki">Kojiki</a></i> (<span title="circa">c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 711 CE</span>)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Nihon_Shoki" title="Nihon Shoki">Nihon Shoki</a></i> (720 CE)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Fudoki" title="Fudoki">Fudoki</a></i> (713–723 CE)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Shoku_Nihongi" title="Shoku Nihongi">Shoku Nihongi</a></i> (797 CE)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Kogo_Sh%C5%ABi" title="Kogo Shūi">Kogo Shūi</a></i> (807 CE)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Kujiki" title="Kujiki">Kujiki</a></i> (807–936 CE)</div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Engishiki" title="Engishiki">Engishiki</a></i> (927 CE)</div></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#b0000f;;background:#FFCCCB;;color: var(--color-base)"><a 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var(--color-base)">Practices</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_festivals" title="Japanese festivals">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kannushi" title="Kannushi">Kannushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miko" title="Miko">Miko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinto_music" title="Shinto music">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kagura" title="Kagura">Ritual dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norito" title="Norito">Ritual incantations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misogi" title="Misogi">Ritual purification</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#b0000f;;background:#FFCCCB;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Category:Shinto" title="Category:Shinto">See also</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edo_neo-Confucianism" title="Edo neo-Confucianism">Edo neo-Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_Shinto" title="Glossary of Shinto">Glossary of Shinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Shinto" title="History of Shinto">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kokugaku" title="Kokugaku">Kokugaku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ko-Shint%C5%8D" title="Ko-Shintō">Ko-Shintō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan" title="List of legendary creatures from Japan">Mythical creatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nippon_Kaigi" title="Nippon Kaigi">Nippon Kaigi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Japan" title="Religion in Japan">Religion in Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secular_Shrine_Theory" title="Secular Shrine Theory">Secular Shrine Theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Shinto" title="State Shinto">State Shinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinbutsu-sh%C5%ABg%C5%8D" title="Shinbutsu-shūgō">Syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below hlist"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_religion_world.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/P_religion_world.svg/16px-P_religion_world.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/P_religion_world.svg/24px-P_religion_world.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/P_religion_world.svg/32px-P_religion_world.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Religion" title="Portal:Religion">Religion portal</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Shinto" title="Template:Shinto"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Shinto" title="Template talk:Shinto"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Shinto" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Shinto"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Japanese mythology</b> is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_archipelago" title="Japanese archipelago">Japanese archipelago</a>. <a href="/wiki/Shinto" title="Shinto">Shinto</a> traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The history of thousands of years of contact with <a href="/wiki/Chinese_mythology" title="Chinese mythology">Chinese</a> and various Indian myths (such as <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_mythology" title="Buddhist mythology">Buddhist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hindu_mythology" title="Hindu mythology">Hindu mythology</a>) are also key influences in Japanese religious belief.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Japanese myths are tied to the <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topography</a> of the archipelago as well as agriculturally-based <a href="/wiki/Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">folk religion</a>, and the Shinto <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_(gods)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantheon (gods)">pantheon</a> holds uncountable <i><a href="/wiki/Kami" title="Kami">kami</a></i> ("<a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">god(s)</a>" or "spirits").<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two important sources for Japanese myths, as they are recognized today, are the <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kojiki" title="Kojiki">Kojiki</a></i></span> and the <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nihon_Shoki" title="Nihon Shoki">Nihon Shoki</a></i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kojiki</i></span>, or "Record of Ancient Matters," is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends, and history.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Shintoshu" class="mw-redirect" title="Shintoshu"><i>Shintōshū</i></a> describes the origins of Japanese deities from a <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> perspective.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One notable feature of Japanese mythology is its explanation of the origin of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_House_of_Japan" title="Imperial House of Japan">Imperial Family</a>, which has been used historically to deify to the imperial line.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Japanese is not transliterated consistently across all sources (see <a href="#Spelling_of_proper_nouns">spelling of proper nouns</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Japanese myths are passed down through <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral tradition</a>, through <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literary</a> sources (including traditional art), and through <a href="/wiki/Archaeological" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeological">archaeological</a> sources.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For much of Japan's history, communities were mostly isolated, which allowed for local legends and myths to grow around unique features of the geographic location where the people who told the stories lived.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_sources">Literary sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Literary sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, completed in A.D. 712 and A.D. 720 respectively, had the two most referenced and oldest sources of Japanese mythology and <a href="/wiki/Prehistory" title="Prehistory">pre-history.</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Written in the <a href="/wiki/8th_century" title="8th century">Eighth century</a>, under the <a href="/wiki/Yamato_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Yamato state">Yamato state</a>, the two collections relate the cosmogony and mythic origins of the Japanese archipelago, its people, and the imperial family.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is based on the records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki that the imperial family claims direct descent from the sun goddess <a href="/wiki/Amaterasu" title="Amaterasu">Amaterasu</a> and her grandson <a href="/wiki/Ninigi-no-Mikoto" title="Ninigi-no-Mikoto">Ninigi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Tenmu" title="Emperor Tenmu">Emperor Temmu</a> enlisted the help of <a href="/wiki/Hieda_no_Are" title="Hieda no Are">Hiyeda no Are</a> who committed to memory the history of Japan as it was recorded in two collections that are thought by historians to have existed before the Kojiki and <a href="/wiki/Nihongi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nihongi">Nihongi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under <a href="/wiki/Empress_Gemmei" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Gemmei">Empress Gemmei</a>'s rule, Hideya no Are's memory of the history of the Japanese archipelago and its mythological origins were recorded in spite of Emperor Temmu's death before its completion.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result of Hideya no Are's account, the Kojiki was finally completed, transcribed in kanji characters, during <a href="/wiki/Empress_Gensh%C5%8D" title="Empress Genshō">Empress Genshō</a>'s time as sovereign.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Yamato state also produced <i><a href="/wiki/Fudoki" title="Fudoki">fudoki</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB" title="Man'yōshū">Man'yōshū</a></i>, two more of the oldest surviving texts that relate the historical and mythical origins of Japan's people, culture, and the imperial family.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Motoori_Norinaga" title="Motoori Norinaga">Motoori Norinaga</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Edo_period" title="Edo period">Edo-period</a> Japanese scholar, interpreted Kojiki and his commentary, annotations, and use of alternate sources to supplement his interpretations are studied by scholars today because of their influence on the current understanding of Japanese myths.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archaeological_sources">Archaeological sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archaeological sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Archaeologists studying the history of the Japanese Archipelago separate the prehistoric history into three eras based on attributes of the discoveries associated with each era.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Jōmun period marks the first cases of pottery found on the archipelago, followed by the Yayoi period and the Kofun period.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Yayoi district of the Japanese capital Tokyo, is the namesake of the Yayoi period because archaeologists discovered pottery associated with the time period there.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Contact with Korean civilization in the latter part of the Yayoi period influenced the culture of the Japanese Archipelago greatly, as evidenced by the discovery of artifacts that archaeologists associate with various cultural streams from Korea, and northeast Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, Kofun period artifacts, ranging from A.D. 250 to A.D. 600, are the archaeological sources of what historians know about the Yamato kingdom — the same Yamato state that was responsible for the two most prominent literary sources of Japanese myth, the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cosmogony">Cosmogony</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cosmogony"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins_of_Japan_and_the_kami">Origins of Japan and the kami</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Origins of Japan and the kami"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Japanese_creation_myth" title="Japanese creation myth">Japanese creation myth</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kuniumi_and_Kamiumi">Kuniumi and Kamiumi</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Kuniumi and Kamiumi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Japan's archipelago <a href="/wiki/Japanese_creation_myth" title="Japanese creation myth">creation narrative</a> can be divided into the birth of the deities (<a href="/wiki/Kamiumi" title="Kamiumi">Kamiumi</a>) and the birth of the land (<a href="/wiki/Kuniumi" title="Kuniumi">Kuniumi</a>). The birth of the deities begins with the appearance of the <a href="/wiki/Kotoamatsukami" title="Kotoamatsukami">first generation of gods</a> who appeared out of primordial oil, a trio of gods who produced the next <a href="/wiki/Kamiyonanayo" title="Kamiyonanayo">seven generations of gods</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Izanagi" title="Izanagi">Izanagi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Izanami" title="Izanami">Izanami</a> were eventually born, siblings, and using a <a href="/wiki/Naginata" title="Naginata">naginata</a> decorated with jewels, named <a href="/wiki/Amenonuhoko" class="mw-redirect" title="Amenonuhoko">Ame-no-nuhoko</a> ("Heavenly Jeweled Spear") that was gifted to them. Izanagi created the first islands of the Japanese Archipelago by dipping the Naginata into the primordial waters.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historians have interpreted the myth of Izanagi's creation of the first Japanese Island Onogoro as an early example of phallocentrism in Japanese mythology.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Japan_yashima.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The Ōyashima, or the eight great islands of Japan, are the children of Izanami and Izanagi according to the Shokiji."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Japan_yashima.png/270px-Japan_yashima.png" decoding="async" width="270" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Japan_yashima.png/405px-Japan_yashima.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Japan_yashima.png/540px-Japan_yashima.png 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption>The Ōyashima, or the eight great islands of Japan, are the children of Izanami and Izanagi according to the Shokiji.</figcaption></figure><p>The earliest creation myths of Japanese mythology generally involve topics such as death, decay, loss, infanticide, and contamination.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The creation myths place great importance on purification, ceremonial order, and the masculine.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, the first child born to Izanagi and Izanami after they attempt a union ceremony is born with no limbs or bones, and the parents discard the child by sending him to sea in a boat.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Izanagi and Izanami ask the older gods why their child was born without bones or limbs, they are told it was because they did not conduct the ceremony properly and that the male must always speak before the female.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once they follow the directions of the older gods correctly, they produce many children, many of whom are the islands of the Japanese Archipelago.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among their children are the <a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cyashima" class="mw-redirect" title="Ōyashima">Ōyashima</a>, or the eight great islands of Japan — <a href="/wiki/Awaji_Island" title="Awaji Island">Awaji</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shikoku" title="Shikoku">Iyo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oki_Islands" title="Oki Islands">Oki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyushu" title="Kyushu">Tsukushi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iki_Island" title="Iki Island">Iki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tsushima_Island" title="Tsushima Island">Tsushima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sado,_Niigata" title="Sado, Niigata">Sado</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Honshu" title="Honshu">Yamato</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last child that Izanami produces is a fire god, <a href="/wiki/Kagutsuchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kagutsuchi">Kagutsuchi</a> (incarnation of fire), whose flames kill her; and Izanagi murders the child in grief-driven anger.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The child's corpse creates even more gods.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Izanami was then buried on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Hiba_(Shimane)" title="Mount Hiba (Shimane)">Mount Hiba</a>, at the border of the <a href="/wiki/Old_provinces_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Old provinces of Japan">old provinces</a> of <a href="/wiki/Izumo_Province" title="Izumo Province">Izumo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hoki_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoki Province">Hoki</a>, near modern-day <a href="/wiki/Yasugi,_Shimane" title="Yasugi, Shimane">Yasugi</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shimane_Prefecture" title="Shimane Prefecture">Shimane Prefecture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars of Japanese mythology have noted the <a href="/wiki/Incest" title="Incest">incestuous</a> themes of the creation myth as represented in the Kojiki, and the first scholar to write about Izanagi and Izanami as siblings was <a href="/wiki/Masao_Oka" title="Masao Oka">Oka Masao</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Izanami is referred to in the Kojiki as Izanagi's <i>imo</i> (meaning both wife or little sister in Japanese) and other scholars dispute that the pair were siblings.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hattori Asake, another scholar, argued that Oka was correct because he drew evidence from another myth about humans who had incestuous relations because of a great flood wiping out the rest of the human population.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Essentially, Hattori said the myth Oka used as evidence was too different to be the origin of the Izanagi and Izanami myth.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Man'yōshū, Izanami is also referred to as <i>imo</i> by the compiler, suggesting that the compiler believed that Izanami was Izanagi's sister.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While scholars disagree about the nature of Izanami and Izanagi's relationships, the gods Amaterasu and <a href="/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto" title="Susanoo-no-Mikoto">Susanoo</a>, children of Izanagi, were sibling gods who created children together in a contest preceding Susanoo's desecration of Amaterasu's home which leads to her hiding in a cave.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A unique aspect of Japanese mythology is its inclusion of graphic details, with disgusting and horrific images that are considered to be taboo in modern Japanese society, which has many cultural practices associated with purification and cleanliness.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Yomi">Yomi</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Yomi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <b>Izanami's</b> death, the myth of <b>Izanagi's efforts to rescue her from <a href="/wiki/Yomi" title="Yomi">Yomi</a></b>, an underworld described in Japanese mythology, explains the origins of the cycle of birth and death.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After killing their child <a href="/wiki/Kagu-tsuchi" title="Kagu-tsuchi">Kagutsuchi</a>, Izanagi was still grief-stricken, so he undertook the task of finding a way to bring Izanami back from the dead.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After finally locating her, he disobeyed her order to not look at her while she went to ask permission to leave Yomi.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He used his hair to create a flame, and when he gazed at Izanami's rotting, maggot-filled flesh he fled in fear and disgust.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Izanami felt betrayed and tried to capture him, but he escaped by creating obstacles for Izanami's horde of <a href="/wiki/Shikome" title="Shikome">shikome</a> including using peaches to threaten them. The myth of Izanagi's journey into Yomi features many themes of food, he creates grapes to distract the shikome who stop to eat them, granting him time to escape. The peaches he uses to scare the shikome off are then blessed, and peaches appear in many other Japanese myths, especially the tale of <a href="/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D" title="Momotarō">Momotarō the peach boy.</a><sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2024)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Sun,_Moon,_and_Storm"><span id="The_Sun.2C_Moon.2C_and_Storm"></span>The Sun, Moon, and Storm</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Sun, Moon, and Storm"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Solar_deity" title="Solar deity">Solar deity</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_(Kunisada)_1856.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png/300px-Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png/450px-Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png/600px-Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_%28Kunisada%29_1856.png 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="1574" /></a><figcaption>Amaterasu emerges from the cave.</figcaption></figure> <p>The origins of the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> are accounted for in Japanese mythology through the myth of Izanagi's return from Yomi.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After spending so much time in Yomi, Izanagi cleansed himself with a purification ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Izanagi cleansed himself, the water and robes that fell from his body created many more gods.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Purification rituals still function as important traditions in Japan today, from shoe etiquette in households to <a href="/wiki/Sumo" title="Sumo">sumo wrestling</a> purification ceremonies.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amaterasu, the Sun goddess and divine ancestor of the first Emperor Jimmu, was born from Izanagi's eye.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Moon god and <a href="/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto" title="Susanoo-no-Mikoto">Susanoo</a> the storm god were born at the same time as Amaterasu, when Izanagi washed his face.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Myths related the Sun, the Moon, and the Storm kami are full of strife and conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sun goddess and her sibling the moon god's interpersonal conflicts explain, in Japanese myth, why the Sun and the Moon do not stay in the sky at the same time — their distaste for one another keeps them both turning away from the other.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, the sun goddess and the storm god Susanoo's conflicts were intense and bloody.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various accounts of Susanoo's temper tantrum in Amaterasu's home depict a variety of disgusting and brutal behaviors (everything from smearing his feces across her home's walls to skinning her favorite horse alive and throwing it at her maid and killing the maid) but it is usually, in depictions of this particular myth, Susanoo's behavior that scares Amaterasu into hiding in a cave.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_10-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It would take the combined efforts of many other kami, and the <a href="/wiki/Eroticism" title="Eroticism">erotic</a> dance of a particular goddess named Ame no Uzume, to lure Amaterasu from the cave again.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ame no Uzume exposed herself while dancing and created such commotion that Amaterasu peeked out from her cave.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The myth of Amaterasu's entering and emerging from a cave is depicted in one of the most iconic images of Japanese mythology which is shown to the right. </p><p>The sun goddess Amaterasu's importance in Japanese mythology is two-fold. She is the sun, and one of Izanagi's most beloved of children, as well as the ancestor of the Japanese imperial line, according to legend.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her status as a sun goddess had political ramifications for the imperial family, and the Yamato state most likely benefited from the myth when dealing with Korean influences because Korea also had myths of sun god ancestors for the Korean imperial family.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_Emperor_Jimmu">First Emperor Jimmu</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: First Emperor Jimmu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg/220px-Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="434" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg/330px-Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg/440px-Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu_detail_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="937" data-file-height="1848" /></a><figcaption>Jimmu Tennō</figcaption></figure> <p>The tale of first <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Jimmu" title="Emperor Jimmu">Emperor Jimmu</a> is considered the origin of the Imperial family.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Emperor Jimmu is considered to be the human descendant of Amaterasu the Sun goddess.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His ascension to the throne marked the "Transition from <a href="/wiki/Age_of_the_Gods" title="Age of the Gods">Age of the Gods</a> to Human Age".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After taking control of <a href="/wiki/Yamato_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Yamato province">Yamato province</a>, he established the imperial throne and <a href="/wiki/Enthronement_of_the_Japanese_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Enthronement of the Japanese Emperor">acceded</a> in the year of <a href="/wiki/Earthly_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthly branch">kanoto</a><a href="/wiki/Celestial_stem" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial stem">tori</a> (conventionally dated to 660 B.C.).<sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of the seventh century, the Imperial court finally moved from where Emperor Jimmu was said to have founded it in Yamato.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ninigi_otokawa.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ninigi_otokawa.png/220px-Ninigi_otokawa.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ninigi_otokawa.png/330px-Ninigi_otokawa.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ninigi_otokawa.png/440px-Ninigi_otokawa.png 2x" data-file-width="527" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Ninigi otokawa, great-grandfather of Jimmu Tennō</figcaption></figure> <p>The importance of this myth in particular is that it establishes the origins, and the power, of the Japanese imperial family as divine.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:11_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although some scholars believe that the myths found in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki are meant to give authority to the imperial family, others suggest that the myths in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki are unique accounts meant to give authority to the mythic histories in themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Nihon Shoki and Kojiki have varying accounts of the mythic history of Japan, and there are differences in the details of the origins of the imperial family between the two texts.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Imperial_House_of_Japan" title="Imperial House of Japan">imperial dynasty</a> still has a role as a public symbol of the state and people, according to the current constitution of Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Japanese_pantheon">The Japanese pantheon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Japanese pantheon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Japanese gods and goddesses, called kami, are uniquely numerous (there are at least eight million) and varied in power and stature.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are usually descendants from the original trio of gods that were born from nothing in the primordial oil that was the world before the kami began to shape it.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are easily as many kami in Japanese myth as there are distinct natural features, and most kami are associated with natural phenomena.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kami can take many shapes and forms, some look almost human in depictions found by archaeologists; meanwhile, other kami look like hybrids of humans and creatures, or may not look human at all. One example of a kami who looks almost human in depictions is the ruler of <a href="/wiki/Ry%C5%ABjin" title="Ryūjin">the Seas Ryujin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, kami like Ninigi and Amaterasu are often depicted as human in their forms.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Shinto" title="Shinto">Shinto</a> originated in Japan, and the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki tell the tales of the Shinto pantheon's origins.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shinto is still practiced today in Japan. In Shinto belief, kami has multiple meanings and could also be translated as "spirit" and all objects in nature have a kami according to this system.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Myths often tell stories of particular, local deities and kami; for example, the kami of a mountain or a nearby lake.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most kami take their origins from Shinto beliefs, but the influence of Buddhism also affected the pantheon.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contact with other cultures usually had some influence on Japanese myth. In the fourteenth century, Christianity found its way to Japan through St. Francis Xavier and there was also contact with westerners.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, during the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a> Christians were executed in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Twenty Christians were crucified before that while <a href="/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi" title="Toyotomi Hideyoshi">Toyotomi Hideyoshi</a> was consolidating his power after the assassination of <a href="/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christianity was banned in Japan until well into the nineteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Folklore_heroes">Folklore heroes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Folklore heroes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As in other cultures, Japanese mythology accounts for not only the actions of supernatural beings but also the adventures and lives of folk heroes. There are many Japanese heroes that are associated with specific locations in Japan, and others that are more well known across the archipelago.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some heroes are thought to have been real people, such as the <a href="/wiki/Forty-seven_r%C5%8Dnin" title="Forty-seven rōnin">Forty-seven rōnin</a>, but their legacy has been transformed into great folktales that depict the historical figures as more gifted, powerful, or knowledgeable than the average person.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The heroic adventures of these heroes range from acts of kindness and devotion, such as the myth of <a href="/wiki/Shita-kiri_Suzume" title="Shita-kiri Suzume">Shita-kiri Suzume</a>, to battling frightful enemies, as in the tale of <a href="/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D" title="Momotarō">Momotaro</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Themes that appear in the folklore concerning heroes are moral lessons, or stories that function as parables. The tale of Shita-kiri Suzume, for example, warns of the dangers of greed, avarice, and jealousy through the example of an old couple's experiences with a fairy who disguised herself as a sparrow to test the old man.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The influence of <i><a href="/wiki/Bushido" title="Bushido">Bushido</a></i> is noticeable in the behavior of heroes, and heroes often were also warriors.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Momotaro, born from a peach for a childless couple to raise, is a mythic hero who embodied courage and dutifulness as he went on a journey to defeat <i><a href="/wiki/Oni" title="Oni">oni</a></i> who were kidnapping, raping, and pillaging his home island.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tale of Momotaro also shares in the themes of violence, sexual violence, and deities or demons devouring humans.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stories of sexual violence are common in the Buddhist text <i><a href="/wiki/Nihon_Ry%C5%8Diki" title="Nihon Ryōiki">Nihon ryōiki</a></i>, while stories of people being devoured by mountain deities are found as if they are historical accounts in the fudoki.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Japanese folklore, heroes like Momotaro rescue women from violent <i>kami</i> and <i>oni</i>. Although the exploits of heroes are well known, Japanese mythology also featured heroines.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ototachibana, the wife of Yamato Takeru, threw herself into the sea to save her husband's ship and quell the wrath of the storm that threatened them.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yamato Takeru, once safe, built a tomb for her and his mourning utterance for his wife caused <a href="/wiki/Honshu" title="Honshu">Eastern Honshu</a> to be called Adzuma.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mythological_creatures">Mythological creatures</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Mythological creatures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See <a href="/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan" title="List of legendary creatures from Japan">List of legendary creatures from Japan</a> for a broad spectrum of creatures potentially classifiable as being "mythological creatures". <a href="/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai" title="Yōkai">Yōkai</a> or animals that interact with humans in <a href="/wiki/Japanese_folklore" title="Japanese folklore">Japanese folklore</a> are discussed in those pages.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg/220px-Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="446" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg/330px-Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg/440px-Ryujin-_Ruler_of_Seas_and_Tides_LACMA_M.91.250.287.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1036" data-file-height="2100" /></a><figcaption>Ryujin: Ruler of Seas and Tides LACMA M.91.250.287</figcaption></figure><p><b><a href="/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo" title="Jorōgumo">Jorōgumo</a> spider:</b> The Jorōgumo spider is commonly known as a member of the Yōkai myths. The myth begins in a waterfall near the city of Izu. A man had been working long hours, and decided to take a nap. He rested near, the waterfall and there is when Jorōgumo, caught her first prey. Taking on the persona of a beautiful woman, the man simply thought she was merely a woman. After she saw he was asleep, she quickly turned to her true form, top half a beautiful woman and the bottom half is a spider. The man awoke in a web, and was lucky enough to escape said web, to tell the tale to local citizens. Unfortunately, a lumberjack who worked in that forest was not lucky enough to escape the mythological creature. </p><p>The Jorōgumo spider is commonly told in Japanese folklore. The word itself translate to the meaning,"whore spider". Every story commonly states, that the creature captures it's prey by first seeming like a beautiful women than after seduction is complete turning into the much more bitter better half. This creature is believed to be over 400 years old. There is said to be a male version of this horrific creature, commonly called the Tschuigumo.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ainu_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Ainu mythology">Ainu mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Buddhism">Japanese Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_folklore" title="Japanese folklore">Japanese folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_urban_legends" title="Japanese urban legends">Japanese urban legends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kami" title="Kami">Kami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamui" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamui">Kamui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuni-yuzuri" title="Kuni-yuzuri">Kuni-yuzuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Japanese_deities" title="List of Japanese deities">List of Japanese deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Lucky_Gods" title="Seven Lucky Gods">Seven Lucky Gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smallpox_demon" title="Smallpox demon">Hōsōshin demon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinto" title="Shinto">Shinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yokai" class="mw-redirect" title="Yokai">Yokai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yurei" class="mw-redirect" title="Yurei">Yurei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaiju" title="Kaiju">Kaiju</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spelling_of_proper_nouns">Spelling of proper nouns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Spelling of proper nouns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px solid #aaa;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Spelling of proper nouns</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>Many deities appear in Japanese mythology, and many of them have multiple aliases. Furthermore, some of their names are comparatively long. This article, therefore, lists only the most prominent names and gives them in one of their abbreviated forms, other abbreviated forms are also in use. </p><p>(For instance, <i>Ninigi</i>, or <i>Ame-Nigishikuni-Nigishiamatsuhiko-Hikono-no-<b>Ninigi</b>-no-Mikoto</i> in full, may also be abbreviated as <i>Hikoho-no-Ninigi</i> or <i>Hono-Ninigi</i>.) </p><p>In some parts of this article, proper names are written in a historical manner. In this article, underlined <i><u>h</u></i>, <i><u>y</u></i>, and <i><u>w</u></i> denote silent letters; they are omitted from modern spelling. Other syllables are modernized as follows (see also <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Romanization#Japanese_language" title="Romanization">romanization systems</a>). Note that some blend of these conventions is also often used. </p> <ul><li><i>hu</i> is modernized as <i>fu</i>.</li> <li><i>zi</i> and <i>di</i> are modernized as <i>ji</i> (the distinction disappeared).</li> <li><i>oo</i> is modernized as <i>o</i> or <i>oh</i>.</li></ul> <dl><dd>For instance, various spellings of <i>O<u>h</u>onamuji</i> include <i>Oonamuji</i>, <i>O<u>h</u>namuji</i>, and others.</dd></dl> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Japanese_mythology&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_creation_myth" title="Japanese creation myth">Japanese creation myth</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kotoamatsukami" title="Kotoamatsukami">Kotoamatsukami</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hitorigami" title="Hitorigami">Hitorigami</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ame-no-Minakanushi" title="Ame-no-Minakanushi">Ame-no-Minakanushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_the_Gods" title="Age of the Gods">Kamiyo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kamiyonanayo" title="Kamiyonanayo">Kamiyonanayo</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuniumi" title="Kuniumi">Kuniumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamiumi" title="Kamiumi">Kamiumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izanami" title="Izanami">Izanami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izanagi" title="Izanagi">Izanagi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Takamagahara" title="Takamagahara">Takamagahara</a> mythology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amaterasu" title="Amaterasu">Amaterasu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susanoo-no-Mikoto" title="Susanoo-no-Mikoto">Susanoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto" title="Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto">Tsukuyomi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ame-no-Uzume" title="Ame-no-Uzume">Ame-no-Uzume</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Izumo_Province" title="Izumo Province">Izumo</a> mythology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi" title="Yamata no Orochi">Yamata no Orochi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hare_of_Inaba" title="Hare of Inaba">Hare of Inaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Ckuninushi" title="Ōkuninushi">Ōkuninushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuni-yuzuri" title="Kuni-yuzuri">Kuni-yuzuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeminakata" title="Takeminakata">Takeminakata</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hy%C5%ABga_Province" title="Hyūga Province">Hyūga</a> mythology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenson_k%C5%8Drin" title="Tenson kōrin">Tenson kōrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninigi-no-Mikoto" title="Ninigi-no-Mikoto">Ninigi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konohanasakuya-hime" title="Konohanasakuya-hime">Konohanasakuya-hime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toyotama-hime" title="Toyotama-hime">Toyotama-hime</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Human age</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Overviews</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Lists <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_era_name" title="Japanese era name">Eras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_clans" title="Japanese clans">Clans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_shoguns" title="List of shoguns">Shoguns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Japan" title="List of wars involving Japan">Wars</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_Japan" title="Economic history of Japan">Economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_education_in_Japan" title="History of education in Japan">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Japanese_foreign_relations" title="History of Japanese foreign relations">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Japan" title="Military history of Japan">Military</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naval_history_of_Japan" title="Naval history of Japan">Naval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Navy</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Ancient</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Paleolithic" title="Japanese Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period" title="Jōmon period">Jōmon period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yayoi_period" title="Yayoi period">Yayoi period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kofun_period" title="Kofun period">Kofun period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asuka_period" title="Asuka period">Asuka period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taih%C5%8D_Code" title="Taihō Code">Taihō Code</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asuka_Kiyomihara_Code" title="Asuka Kiyomihara Code">Asuka Kiyomihara Code</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakuh%C5%8D_period" title="Hakuhō period">Hakuhō period</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taika_Reform" title="Taika Reform">Taika Reform</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monmu_period" title="Monmu period">Monmu period</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nara_period" title="Nara period">Nara period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heian_period" title="Heian period">Heian period</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Post-Classical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genpei_War" title="Genpei War">Genpei War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamakura_period" title="Kamakura period">Kamakura period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kamakura_shogunate" title="Kamakura shogunate">Kamakura shogunate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan" title="Mongol invasions of Japan">Mongol invasions of Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genk%C5%8D_War" title="Genkō War">Genkō War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenmu_Restoration" title="Kenmu Restoration">Kenmu Restoration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muromachi_period" title="Muromachi period">Muromachi period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashikaga_shogunate" title="Ashikaga shogunate">Ashikaga shogunate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanboku-ch%C5%8D_period" title="Nanboku-chō period">Nanboku-chō period</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cnin_War" title="Ōnin War">Ōnin War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sengoku_period" title="Sengoku period">Sengoku period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azuchi%E2%80%93Momoyama_period" title="Azuchi–Momoyama period">Azuchi–Momoyama period</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Five_Elders" title="Council of Five Elders">Council of Five Elders</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imjin_War" title="Imjin War">Imjin War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Early Modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edo_period" title="Edo period">Edo period</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakumatsu" title="Bakumatsu">Bakumatsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meiji_era" title="Meiji era">Meiji era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meiji_Constitution" title="Meiji Constitution">Imperial Constitution (1890–1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Meiji_Japan" title="Government of Meiji Japan">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meiji_oligarchy" title="Meiji oligarchy">Meiji oligarchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meiji_Restoration" title="Meiji Restoration">Meiji Restoration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolition_of_the_han_system" title="Abolition of the han system">Abolition of the han system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boshin_War" title="Boshin War">Boshin War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satsuma_Rebellion" title="Satsuma Rebellion">Satsuma Rebellion</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazoku" title="Kazoku">Kazoku</a> (noble)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War" title="First Sino-Japanese War">First Sino-Japanese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War" title="Russo-Japanese War">Russo-Japanese War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Late Modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taish%C5%8D_era" title="Taishō era">Taishō era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_I" title="Japan during World War I">Japan during World War I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_Great_Kant%C5%8D_earthquake" title="1923 Great Kantō earthquake">1923 Great Kantō earthquake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_era" title="Shōwa era">Shōwa era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_II" title="Japan during World War II">Japan during World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukden_Incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Mukden Incident">Mukden Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" title="Occupation of Japan">Occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postwar_Japan" title="Postwar Japan">Postwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle" title="Japanese economic miracle">Economic miracle</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heisei_era" title="Heisei era">Heisei era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake" title="Great Hanshin earthquake">Great Hanshin earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami">2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Contemporary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reiwa_era" title="Reiwa era">Reiwa era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019_Japanese_imperial_transition" title="2019 Japanese imperial transition">2019 imperial transition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Japan" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Japan">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Japan" title="Geography of Japan">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system" title="Japanese addressing system">Addresses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_archipelago" title="Japanese archipelago">Archipelago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Japan" title="Districts of Japan">Districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan" title="List of earthquakes in Japan">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Japan" title="Environmental issues in Japan">Environment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_Japan" title="List of extreme points of Japan">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Japan" title="List of islands of Japan">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Japan" title="List of lakes of Japan">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan" title="Prefectures of Japan">Prefectures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Japan" title="List of regions of Japan">Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Japan" title="List of rivers of Japan">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Japan" title="List of towns in Japan">Towns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Japan" title="List of villages in Japan">Villages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Japan" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Japan">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Japan" title="Politics of Japan">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan" title="Constitution of Japan">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Japan" title="Elections in Japan">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan" title="Emperor of Japan">Emperor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_Japan" title="List of emperors of Japan">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_House_of_Japan" title="Imperial House of Japan">Imperial House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Japan" title="Foreign relations of Japan">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Japan" title="Human rights in Japan">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Japan" title="LGBTQ rights in Japan">LGBTQ</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Japan" title="Judicial system of Japan">Judiciary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Japan" title="Supreme Court of Japan">Supreme Court</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Japan" title="Law of Japan">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Japan" title="Law enforcement in Japan">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Diet" title="National Diet">National Diet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Japan)" title="House of Representatives (Japan)">House of Representatives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Councillors" title="House of Councillors">House of Councillors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Diet_of_Japan" title="List of members of the Diet of Japan">List of members</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Japan" title="List of political parties in Japan">Political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Self-Defense Forces</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Ground_Self-Defense_Force" title="Japan Ground Self-Defense Force">Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force" title="Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force">Maritime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force" title="Japan Air Self-Defense Force">Air</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Japan" title="Government of Japan">Government</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Japan" title="Cabinet of Japan">Cabinet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Japanese_cabinets" title="List of Japanese cabinets">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monetary_and_fiscal_policy_of_Japan" title="Monetary and fiscal policy of Japan">Fiscal policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_Japan" title="Foreign policy of Japan">Foreign policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministries_of_Japan" title="Ministries of Japan">Ministries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan" title="Prime Minister of Japan">Prime Minister</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Japan" title="List of prime ministers of Japan">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Japan" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Japan">Deputy Prime Minister</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Japan" title="Economy of Japan">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture,_forestry,_and_fishing_in_Japan" title="Agriculture, forestry, and fishing in Japan">Agriculture, forestry, fishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Japan" title="Bank of Japan">Central bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor_market_of_Japan" title="Labor market of Japan">Labor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manufacturing_in_Japan" title="Manufacturing in Japan">Manufacturing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Japan" title="Energy in Japan">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Japan" title="Science and technology in Japan">Science and technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_Japan" title="Communications in Japan">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Japan" title="Transport in Japan">Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">Yen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Japan" title="Category:Society of Japan">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-monarchism_in_Japan" title="Anti-monarchism in Japan">Anti-monarchism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan" title="Censorship in Japan">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Japan" title="Crime in Japan">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan" title="Demographics of Japan">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Japan" title="Education in Japan">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etiquette_in_Japan" title="Etiquette in Japan">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambling_in_Japan" title="Gambling in Japan">Gambling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_in_Japan" title="Health in Japan">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_in_Japan" title="Housing in Japan">Housing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Japan" title="Homelessness in Japan">Homelessness</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Japan" title="Languages of Japan">Languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Japanese_prefectures_by_life_expectancy" title="List of Japanese prefectures by life expectancy">Life expectancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pornography_in_Japan" title="Pornography in Japan">Pornography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prostitution_in_Japan" title="Prostitution in Japan">Prostitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Japan" title="Religion in Japan">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_Japan" title="Sex trafficking in Japan">Sex trafficking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_minorities_in_Japan" title="Sexual minorities in Japan">Sexual minorities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_Japan" title="Sexuality in Japan">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smoking_in_Japan" title="Smoking in Japan">Smoking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Japan" title="Women in Japan">Women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Japan" title="Culture of Japan">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics" title="Japanese aesthetics">Aesthetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">Anime</a> / <a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">Manga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_architecture" title="Japanese architecture">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_art" title="Japanese art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonsai" title="Bonsai">Bonsai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Japan" title="Cinema of Japan">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_S_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class S (genre)">Class S (genre)</a></li> <li><a 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Gassen</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bunbuku_Chagama" title="Bunbuku Chagama">Bunbuku Chagama</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hachikazuki" title="Hachikazuki">Hachikazuki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hakuz%C5%8Dsu" title="Hakuzōsu">Hakuzōsu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hanasaka_Jiisan" title="Hanasaka Jiisan">Hanasaka Jiisan</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hyakki_Yagy%C5%8D" title="Hyakki Yagyō">Hyakki Yagyō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi" title="Issun-bōshi">Issun-bōshi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kachi-kachi_Yama" title="Kachi-kachi Yama">Kachi-kachi Yama</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kasa_Jiz%C5%8D" title="Kasa Jizō">Kasa Jizō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kintar%C5%8D" title="Kintarō">Kintarō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kobutori_Jiisan" title="Kobutori Jiisan">Kobutori Jiisan</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kurozuka" title="Kurozuka">Kurozuka</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D" title="Momotarō">Momotarō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nezumi_no_Sum%C5%8D" title="Nezumi no Sumō">Nezumi no Sumō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Oto-hime" title="Oto-hime">Oto-hime</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/The_Crab_and_the_Monkey" title="The Crab and the Monkey">Saru Kani Gassen</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shita-kiri_Suzume" title="Shita-kiri Suzume">Shita-kiri Suzume</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter" title="The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter">Taketori Monogatari</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae" title="Tamamo-no-Mae">Tamamo-no-Mae</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tawara_T%C5%8Dda_Monogatari" title="Tawara Tōda Monogatari">Tawara Tōda</a></i></span></li> 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<ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Konjaku_Monogatarish%C5%AB" title="Konjaku Monogatarishū">Konjaku Monogatarishū</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Otogi-z%C5%8Dshi" title="Otogi-zōshi">Otogi-zōshi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Uji_Sh%C5%ABi_Monogatari" title="Uji Shūi Monogatari">Uji Shūi Monogatari</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan" title="List of legendary creatures from Japan">Legendary Creatures <br /> in Japanese Folklore</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Abura-akago" title="Abura-akago">Abura-akago</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Abura-sumashi" title="Abura-sumashi">Abura-sumashi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Aka_Manto" title="Aka Manto">Aka Manto</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Akaname" title="Akaname">Akaname</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Akashita" title="Akashita">Akashita</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Akateko_(folklore)" title="Akateko (folklore)">Akateko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Akuma_(folklore)" title="Akuma (folklore)">Akuma</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amabie" title="Amabie">Amabie</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Aoandon" title="Aoandon">Aoandon</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amanojaku" title="Amanojaku">Amanojaku</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amanozako" title="Amanozako">Amanozako</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amazake-babaa" title="Amazake-babaa">Amazake-babaa</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amefurikoz%C5%8D" title="Amefurikozō">Amefurikozō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ameonna" title="Ameonna">Ameonna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Amikiri" title="Amikiri">Amikiri</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Aob%C5%8Dzu" title="Aobōzu">Aobōzu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Aony%C5%8Db%C5%8D" title="Aonyōbō">Aonyōbō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Aosaginohi" title="Aosaginohi">Aosaginohi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ashinagatenaga" title="Ashinagatenaga">Ashinagatenaga</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ayakashi_(y%C5%8Dkai)" title="Ayakashi (yōkai)">Ayakashi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Azukiarai" title="Azukiarai">Azukiarai</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bake-kujira" title="Bake-kujira">Bake-kujira</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Baku_(mythology)" title="Baku (mythology)">Baku</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Basan_(legendary_bird)" title="Basan (legendary bird)">Basan</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami" title="Binbōgami">Binbōgami</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Chimim%C5%8Dry%C5%8D" title="Chimimōryō">Chimimōryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Daidarabotchi" title="Daidarabotchi">Daidarabotchi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Dodomeki" title="Dodomeki">Dodomeki</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dorotab%C5%8D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dorotabō (page does not exist)"><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">Dorotabō</i></span></a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%A5%E7%94%B0%E5%9D%8A" class="extiw" title="ja:泥田坊">ja</a>]</span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_dragon" title="Japanese dragon">Dragon</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Enenra" title="Enenra">Enenra</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Funay%C5%ABrei" title="Funayūrei">Funayūrei</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Furaribi" title="Furaribi">Furaribi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/F%C5%ABri" class="mw-redirect" title="Fūri">Fūri</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Futakuchi-onna" title="Futakuchi-onna">Futakuchi-onna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Gagoze" title="Gagoze">Gagoze</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Gashadokuro" title="Gashadokuro">Gashadokuro</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Gory%C5%8D" title="Goryō">Goryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hanako-san" title="Hanako-san">Hanako-san</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Harionago" title="Harionago">Harionago</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hashihime" title="Hashihime">Hashihime</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hibagon" title="Hibagon">Hibagon</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hiderigami" title="Hiderigami">Hiderigami</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hinezumi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hinezumi">Hinezumi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hito-gitsune" title="Hito-gitsune">Hito-gitsune</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hitotsume-koz%C5%8D" title="Hitotsume-kozō">Hitotsume-kozō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hitotsume-ny%C5%ABd%C5%8D" title="Hitotsume-nyūdō">Hitotsume-nyūdō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hone-onna" title="Hone-onna">Hone-onna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hy%C5%8Dsube" title="Hyōsube">Hyōsube</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ikiry%C5%8D" title="Ikiryō">Ikiryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ikuchi" title="Ikuchi">Ikuchi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Inugami" title="Inugami">Inugami</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ishinagenjo" title="Ishinagenjo">Ishinagenjo</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Isonade" title="Isonade">Isonade</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Janjanbi" title="Janjanbi">Janjanbi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Jinmenju" title="Jinmenju">Jinmenju</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo" title="Jorōgumo">Jorōgumo</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Jubokko" title="Jubokko">Jubokko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kaiby%C5%8D" title="Kaibyō">Kaibyō</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bakeneko" title="Bakeneko">Bakeneko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nekomata" title="Nekomata">Nekomata</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kamaitachi" title="Kamaitachi">Kamaitachi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kamikiri_(haircutting)" title="Kamikiri (haircutting)">Kamikiri</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)" title="Kappa (folklore)">Kappa</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kasa-obake" title="Kasa-obake">Kasa-obake</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kasha_(folklore)" title="Kasha (folklore)">Kasha</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Otter#Japanese_folklore" title="Otter">Kawauso</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Keukegen" title="Keukegen">Keukegen</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kijimuna" title="Kijimuna">Kijimuna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kinoko" title="Kinoko">Kinoko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Qilin" title="Qilin">Kirin</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kitsune" title="Kitsune">Kitsune</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Hakuz%C5%8Dsu" title="Hakuzōsu">Hakuzōsu</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kitsunebi" title="Kitsunebi">Kitsunebi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kodama_(spirit)" title="Kodama (spirit)">Kodama</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Komainu" title="Komainu">Komainu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Konaki-jiji" title="Konaki-jiji">Konaki-jiji</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Korpokkur" title="Korpokkur">Korpokkur</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Koromodako" title="Koromodako">Koromodako</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kotobuki_(folklore)" title="Kotobuki (folklore)">Kotobuki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kuchisake-onna" title="Kuchisake-onna">Kuchisake-onna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kuda-gitsune" title="Kuda-gitsune">Kuda-gitsune</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kudan_(y%C5%8Dkai)" title="Kudan (yōkai)">Kudan</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kumiho" title="Kumiho">Kumiho</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kuzunoha" title="Kuzunoha">Kuzunoha</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kyubi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyubi">Kyubi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mazoku" title="Mazoku">Mazoku</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mikaribaba" title="Mikaribaba">Mikaribaba</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mikoshi-ny%C5%ABd%C5%8D" title="Mikoshi-nyūdō">Mikoshi-nyūdō</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Miage-ny%C5%ABd%C5%8D" title="Miage-nyūdō">Miage-nyūdō</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Misaki" title="Misaki">Misaki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mizuchi" title="Mizuchi">Mizuchi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mokumokuren" title="Mokumokuren">Mokumokuren</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Momiji_(oni)" title="Momiji (oni)"> Momiji</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mononoke" title="Mononoke">Mononoke</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/M%C5%8Dry%C5%8D" title="Mōryō">Mōryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mujina" title="Mujina">Mujina</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Namahage" title="Namahage">Namahage</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Namazu_(Japanese_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Namazu (Japanese mythology)">Namazu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ningyo" title="Ningyo">Ningyo</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Noderab%C5%8D" title="Noderabō">Noderabō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Noppera-b%C5%8D" title="Noppera-bō">Noppera-bō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nue" title="Nue">Nue</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nuppepp%C5%8D" title="Nuppeppō">Nuppeppō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nurarihyon" title="Nurarihyon">Nurarihyon</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nure-onna" title="Nure-onna">Nure-onna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Nurikabe" title="Nurikabe">Nurikabe</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ny%C5%ABd%C5%8D-b%C5%8Dzu" title="Nyūdō-bōzu">Nyūdō-bōzu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Obake" title="Obake">Obake</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Oboroguruma" title="Oboroguruma">Oboroguruma</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Yotsuya_Kaidan" title="Yotsuya Kaidan">Oiwa</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Banch%C5%8D_Sarayashiki" title="Banchō Sarayashiki">Okiku</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Okubi" class="mw-redirect" title="Okubi">Okubi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cmukade" title="Ōmukade">Ōmukade</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Oni" title="Oni">Oni</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ibaraki-d%C5%8Dji" title="Ibaraki-dōji">Ibaraki-dōji</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kijo_(folklore)" title="Kijo (folklore)">Kijo/Onibaba</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kid%C5%8Dmaru" title="Kidōmaru">Kidōmaru</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Rash%C5%8Dmon_no_oni" title="Rashōmon no oni">Rashōmon no oni</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shuten-d%C5%8Dji" title="Shuten-dōji">Shuten-dōji</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Onibi" title="Onibi">Onibi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Onihitokuchi" title="Onihitokuchi">Onihitokuchi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Onikuma" title="Onikuma">Onikuma</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Onry%C5%8D" title="Onryō">Onryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cny%C5%ABd%C5%8D" title="Ōnyūdō">Ōnyūdō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ootakemaru" title="Ootakemaru">Ootakemaru</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Osakabehime" title="Osakabehime">Osakabehime</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Osaki" title="Osaki">Osaki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Otoroshi" title="Otoroshi">Otoroshi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ouni" title="Ouni">Ouni</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Raij%C5%AB" title="Raijū">Raijū</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Rokurokubi" title="Rokurokubi">Rokurokubi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Samebito" title="Samebito">Samebito</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sankai" title="Sankai">Sankai</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Satori_(folklore)" title="Satori (folklore)">Satori</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sazae-oni" title="Sazae-oni">Sazae-oni</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shachihoko" title="Shachihoko">Shachihoko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shidaidaka" title="Shidaidaka">Shidaidaka</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shikigami" title="Shikigami">Shikigami</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shikome" title="Shikome">Shikome</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shinigami" title="Shinigami">Shinigami</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shiranui_(optical_phenomenon)" title="Shiranui (optical phenomenon)">Shiranui</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shirime" title="Shirime">Shirime</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shiry%C5%8D" title="Shiryō">Shiryō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dj%C5%8D" title="Shōjō">Shōjō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dkera" title="Shōkera">Shōkera</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shussebora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shussebora (page does not exist)"><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">Shussebora</i></span></a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%BA%E4%B8%96%E8%9E%BA" class="extiw" title="ja:出世螺">ja</a>]</span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dj%C5%8Db%C5%8D" title="Sōjōbō">Sōjōbō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sunekosuri" title="Sunekosuri">Sunekosuri</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Takaonna" title="Takaonna">Takaonna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bake-danuki" title="Bake-danuki">Tanuki</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tanuki-bayashi" title="Tanuki-bayashi">Tanuki-bayashi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Danzaburou-danuki" title="Danzaburou-danuki">Danzaburou-danuki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Inugami_Gy%C5%8Dbu" title="Inugami Gyōbu">Inugami Gyōbu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shibaemon-tanuki" title="Shibaemon-tanuki">Shibaemon-tanuki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Yashima_no_Hage-tanuki" title="Yashima no Hage-tanuki">Yashima no Hage-tanuki</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_marten#Legends" title="Japanese marten">Ten</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tengu" title="Tengu">Tengu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tennin" title="Tennin">Tennin</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tenome" title="Tenome">Tenome</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tesso" title="Tesso">Tesso</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/T%C5%8Dfu-koz%C5%8D" title="Tōfu-kozō">Tōfu-kozō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsuchigumo" title="Tsuchigumo">Tsuchigumo</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsuchinoko" title="Tsuchinoko">Tsuchinoko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsukumogami" title="Tsukumogami">Tsukumogami</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Abumi-guchi" title="Abumi-guchi">Abumi-guchi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bakez%C5%8Dri" title="Bakezōri">Bakezōri</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Biwa-bokuboku" title="Biwa-bokuboku">Biwa-bokuboku</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Boroboroton" title="Boroboroton">Boroboroton</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dchin%27obake" title="Chōchin'obake">Chōchin'obake</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ittan-momen" title="Ittan-momen">Ittan-momen</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kasa-obake" title="Kasa-obake">Kasa-obake</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Koto-furunushi" title="Koto-furunushi">Koto-furunushi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Menreiki" title="Menreiki">Menreiki</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ungaiky%C5%8D" title="Ungaikyō">Ungaikyō</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsurara-onna" title="Tsurara-onna">Tsurara-onna</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsurubebi" title="Tsurubebi">Tsurubebi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsurube-otoshi" title="Tsurube-otoshi">Tsurube-otoshi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ubagabi" title="Ubagabi">Ubagabi</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ubume" title="Ubume">Ubume</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Umib%C5%8Dzu" title="Umibōzu">Umibōzu</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Umi_zat%C5%8D" title="Umi zatō">Umi zatō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ushi-oni" title="Ushi-oni">Ushi-oni</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Uwan" title="Uwan">Uwan</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Waira" title="Waira">Waira</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Wany%C5%ABd%C5%8D" title="Wanyūdō">Wanyūdō</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Yako_(fox)" title="Yako (fox)">Yako</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Yamabiko_(folklore)" title="Yamabiko (folklore)">Yamabiko</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a 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