Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto
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Tsukuyomi or Tsukiyomi, also Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, is the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. The name "Tsukuyomi" is a compound of the Old Japanese words tsuku and yomi.
Tsukiyomi-no-miya, auxiliary shrine of the Inner Shrine in Sanctuary of Kotaijingu (Naiku) at Ise city
Tsukuyomi Shrine, auxiliary lunar at Matsunoo-taisha in Kyoto
Amaterasu cave crop
Kuniteru Gozu dragon
Izanami
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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
Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto
…first land of Onogoroshima, was cleansing himself of his kegare while bathing after escaping the underworld and the clutches of his enraged dead sister, Izanami-no-Mikoto. Tsukuyomi was born when he washed out of Izanagi's right eye. In an alternative story, Tsukuyomi was born from a mirror made of white copper in Izanagi's…
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.
Izanagi and Izanami in Yomi.