Izanami, formally referred to with the honorific Izanami-no-Mikoto, is the creator of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband I
Searching the Seas with the Tenkei (天瓊を以て滄海を探るの図, Tenkei o motte sōkai o saguru no zu). Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, 1880-90 (MFA, Boston). Izanagi with the spear Amenonuhoko to the right, Izanami to the left.