Ame-no-oshihomimi is produced in the kami-generating episode between Amaterasu and Susanoo. According to the cited sources, Susanoo took Amaterasu's beads and crushed them in his mouth, which created five male kami; Ame-no-oshihomimi was the first to be born. He is presented within the heavenly genealogy as Amaterasu's first son and as an intermediary in the sequence that links heavenly authority to earthly rulership. In some versions of the narratives Amaterasu offers him the role of ruler of the earth, but he declines that offer. He later falls in love with Takuhadachiji-hime and fathers Ninigi-no-Mikoto, continuing the line that becomes associated with the Imperial ancestry.
The supplied sources do not provide a physical description or stable iconography for Ame-no-oshihomimi. He is primarily attested and recognized through genealogical and mythic roles—his identity is established by name, etymology, and familial relations—rather than by visual depiction in the provided material.
The sources emphasize his status and roles in lineage and succession rather than enumerating specific supernatural powers. He is described as the first son of Amaterasu and therefore qualified within the myths to be offered rulership of the earth, which he in some versions refuses. He is also described as fathering Ninigi-no-Mikoto through Takuhadachiji-hime. The supplied material does not catalogue explicit magical abilities, elemental control, or other powers beyond his function as a heavenly progenitor and link in the divine-to-imperial succession.
Amatsuhikone
Amatsuhikone (天津日子根命 / 天津彥根命) is a kami in Japanese mythology described as a son of the sun goddess Amaterasu. He functions primarily as a member of the heavenly genealogy used to legitimize clan lineages and is later identified as the shintai (sacred body) of Mount Mikami, where Mikami Shrine stands to venerate him.
Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto
Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto is a male Amatsukami (heavenly kami) in classical Shinto myth, presented as the ritual-official ancestor of the Nakatomi clan and linked genealogically to the Fujiwara. He functions as a divine ritual specialist—performing divination and liturgical speech in foundational myths (notably the Ama-no-Iwato episode) and as guardian of the sacred mirror—and is venerated at major shrines such as Kasuga Taisha and Hiraoka Shrine.
Ame-no-Minakanushi
Ame-no-Minakanushi (天之御中主) is a primordial kami named in Japan's classical creation texts as one of the very first deities to come into being in Takamanohara (High Heaven). Presented in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki as a solitary, hidden first god, he functions primarily as a mythic point of cosmic origin rather than an actively intervening deity in surviving narratives.
Ame-no-Tajikarao
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Ame-no-Tokotachi
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Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto is a Shinto kami of dawn, mirth, revelry and the performing arts whose comic and erotic dance at the entrance of Amano‑Iwato lures the sun goddess Amaterasu from hiding, restoring light; her action is cited as the mythic origin of kagura and of certain ritual/performance lineages.
Ame-no-hohi
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Ame-no-wakahiko
Ame-no-wakahiko is presented in the provided sources as a kami in Japanese mythology, described specifically as a god of grains and counted among the Amatsukami (heavenly deities). The sources identify him as a son of Amatsukunitama and note a medieval prose narrative, the Ame no Wakahiko Monogatari, exists about him.
Amechania
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Amefurikozō
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Amelius (Gentilianus)
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Amemasu
Amemasu (雨鱒, アメマス), sometimes Ō-amemasu (大アメマス), is a giant fish- or whale-like lake-being in Ainu-related and regional Japanese folklore. Tales attribute to it dangerous behaviors (capsizing boats, drowning people), landscape-changing effects (blocking lakes, causing floods), and a cosmological role in which very large individuals can affect earthquakes by 'holding up' the earth.
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