Yomi
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Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni is the Japanese word for the land of the dead. According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of
Yomotsu Hirasaka in Higashiizumo, Matsue, Shimane Prefecture
Amaterasu cave crop
Kuniteru Gozu dragon
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Izanagi
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Izanagi, formally referred to with a divine honorific as Izanagi-no-Mikoto, is the creator deity of both creation and life in Japanese mythology. He and his sister-wife Izanami are the last of the sev
Yomi
…Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. Yomi is most commonly known for Izanami's retreat to that place after her death. Izanagi followed her there and upon his return he washed himself, creating Amaterasu from his left eye, Susanoo from his nostrils, and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto from…
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 Ame-no-Nuboko (Tenkei) to the right, Izanami to the left.
Izanagi purifying himself (misogi) by immersing in a river (Natori Shunsen)