Fūjin

God of the wind, eternal counterpart of Raijin, bearer of the wind-bag.

Domains

• wind

Powers

• Unleash the winds from a great bag

Epithets

• 風神 japanese · Fūjin · cultGod of the wind, bearer of the wind-bagJapanese folk-Shintō tradition; Tawaraya Sōtatsu's Fūjin-Raijin-zu (secondary)
• 風天 japanese · Fūten · sutraThe Wind-Deva; his Buddhist (Vāyu) directional-guardian formJapanese esoteric Buddhism; the Jūniten (twelve devas) tradition (secondary)

Relations

• companion: RaijinWind god paired as the eternal counterpart of the thunder god Raijin; conventionally a flanking guardian dyad. No parentage attested for either.Standard iconographic pairing of Fūjin and Raijin (wind/thunder guardians); Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Fūjin Raijin-zu byōbu; Sanjūsangen-dō guardian statuary (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Japanese folk-religion tradition; Buddhist iconographic transmission (secondary)