Toyotama-hime
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Toyotama-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. She is the daughter of the sea deity, Watatsumi, and the wife of Hoori. She is known as the paternal grandmother
Toyotama-hime with her younger sister Tamayori-hime
Hoori meets Toyotama-hime —illustration by Evelyn Paul
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Ugayafukiaezu
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Ugayafukiaezu no Mikoto is a Shinto kami, and is in Japanese mythology, the father of Japan's first Emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
Toyotama-hime
…the prince Hoori, but returns to the sea when he breaks the vow not to spy on her while she goes through childbirth. The child she gave birth to was Ugayafukiaezu. Toyotama-hime's name is believed to mean "a miko (shrine maiden) who makes rich pearls attract divine spirits," in which toyo (豊) stands for "rich…
Toyotama-hime giving birth to Ugayafukiaezu by turning herself into a wani in an 1886 illustration
Ugayafukiaezu shinbutsu zue