Konohanasakuya-hime

Blossom princess, wife of Ninigi and tutelary deity of Mount Fuji.

Children

• Hoderi
• Hoori

Domains

• blossoms
• volcanoes
• childbirth and fertility

Powers

• Give birth unharmed within fire

Epithets

• 木花之佐久夜毘売 japanese · Konohanasakuya-hime'Princess Who Makes the Tree-Blossoms Bloom'Kojiki, Book 1 (primary)
• 神阿多都比売 japanese · Kamu-Atatsu-hime'Divine Princess of Ata' — her alternate name in the KojikiKojiki, Book 1 (primary)
• 浅間大神 japanese · Asama-no-Ōkami'Great Kami of Asama (Mt. Fuji)' — her enshrined titleFujisan Hongū Sengen-taisha shrine tradition (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: Iwanaga-himeHer elder sister, whom Ninigi sent back. Added as the reciprocal of the edge on the new Iwanaga-hime record: sibling is symmetric, and the pairing of the blossom and the rock is the point of both figures.Kojiki, vol. 1, 712 CE: Ōyamatsumi sent both of his daughters to Ninigi, who kept Konohanasakuya-hime and returned Iwanaga-hime. (primary)
• spouse: NinigiBlossom-princess wife of the heavenly-descended Ninigi; bears the fire-birth sons ancestral to the imperial line.Kojiki I (Ninigi weds Konohanasakuya-hime at Cape Kasasa); Nihon Shoki II (primary)

Sources

• existence: Kojiki, vol. 1, 712 CE (primary); Nihon Shoki, vol. 1, 720 CE (primary)