Takemikazuchi
Japanese · deity · kamiyo · Recorded classification
The id is deliberately distinguished from the registry's existing `japanese_kojiki_takemikazuchi_miwa`, who is a human scion of the Miwa line and shares the name — the sweep matched on it, which is exactly the kind of false positive a name-only check produces. The image of the two envoys sitting cross-legged on the points of their upturned swords in the surf at Inasa is the single most-reproduced scene in Izumo art, and neither figure was in the corpus.
Domains
- thunder
- swords
Relations
- companion: FutsunushiThe other envoy. The two are named together in the Nihon Shoki and their shrines, Kashima and Katori, stand across the water from each other.Reference treatment of the two messengers who came to Inasa. (secondary)
- enemy: TakeminakataThe one son who fought instead of agreeing.Reference treatment of the trial of strength between Takemikazuchi and Takeminakata. (secondary)
Sources
- Takemikazuchi is the thunder kami sent as Amaterasu's envoy in the kuni-yuzuri, who sat on his upturned sword at Inasa and defeated Takeminakata by turning his arm into an icicle and a blade.: Reference treatments of the kuni-yuzuri and of Takemikazuchi. (secondary)