English word senses marked with topical category "Japanese deities"

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Total 33 word senses

• Amaterasu (Proper name) The Japanese sun goddess, and most important Shinto deity; she is the daughter of Izanagi and Izanami and the sister of Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi, and Kagutsuchi.
• Amatsumara (Proper name) the Japanese god of the forge, metalcraft, and blacksmithing.
• Ame-no-Uzume (Proper name) The Japanese goddess of the dawn, joy and of springtime.
• Benzaiten (Proper name) (Also known as "Benten-sama") The Hindu goddess, Saraswati, of knowledge, art and beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
• Dojin (Proper name) A Japanese god of earth, land or soil.
• Ebisu (Proper name) The Japanese god of fishing and commerce. One of the seven gods of luck.
• Enma (Proper name) The Japanese name for Yama, the Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell). A deity and/or personification of death. (Compare Izanami and the Shinigami.)
• Fudō Myōō (Proper name) a guardian deity primarily revered in Vajrayana Buddhism as the principal of the Five Wisdom Kings, also known as Acala.
• Fukurokuju (Proper name) The Japanese name for the Chinese god Xuanwu, one of the seven gods of good fortune: the god of happiness, wealth, and longevity.
• Fūjin (Proper name) The Japanese god of winds and storms, along with Raijin and Susanoo.
• Hachiman (Proper name) the Japanese god of archery and tutelary deity of samurai.
• Hotei (Proper name) The Chinese god Budai, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health, and one of the seven gods of luck.
• Inari (Proper name) The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.
• Izanagi (Proper name) A Japanese creator god; he is Izanami's elder brother and spouse, and the father of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi.
• Izanami (Proper name) A Japanese creator goddess who is also (along with the Shinigami and Enma) a goddess of death and the underworld; she is Izanagi's younger sister and spouse, and the mother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi.
• Jurōjin (Proper name) The Japanese god of longevity. One of the seven gods of luck.
• Kagutsuchi (Proper name) The Japanese god of fire, son of Izanagi and Izanami and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Tsukuyomi and Ōyamatsumi; he burned his mother to death while being born.
• Kajin (Proper name) Kagutsuchi, the Japanese god of fire.
• Kajishin (Proper name) the Japanese god of the forge, metalcraft, and blacksmithing
• Kisshōten (Proper name) The Japanese version of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi: goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.
• Konohananosakuya-hime (Proper name) The goddess of Mount Fuji; the blossom-princess, and the symbol of delicate earthly life.
• Raijin (Proper name) The Japanese god of lightning, thunder and storms, along with Fūjin and Susanoo.
• Ryūjin (Proper name) A dragon god also known as Watatsumi and Suijin, the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.
• Sanbō Kōjin (Proper name) The Japanese god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen.
• Shinigami (Proper name) The deity and/or personification of death. (Compare Izanami and Enma).
• Suijin (Proper name) A Japanese god of water; another name for Ryūjin.
• Susanoo (Proper name) The main Japanese storm god (along with Raijin and Fūjin), son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.
• Tenjin (Proper name) A Japanese god of the heavens; also the Shinto kami of scholarship.
• Toshigami (Proper name) The god of the coming year, celebrated at New Years.
• Tsukuyomi (Proper name) The Japanese moon god, son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.
• Ōkuninushi (Proper name) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.
• Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto (Proper name) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good matches.
• Ōyamatsumi (Proper name) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.

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