Tamayori-hime
Japanese · deity · kamiyo · Recorded classification
Her name is not really a name: tamayori-hime is the standing term for a woman a divine spirit comes into, and it is used of several different figures in the early texts. That the mother of the first emperor of Japan is called 'the woman the god enters' is the clearest surviving trace of how the imperial line was originally conceived — not as descent from a god but as a woman being entered by one, repeatedly, down a chain.
Children
Domains
- the sea
- fosterage
Relations
- child of: RyūjinThe corpus holds Watatsumi as a name on its Ryūjin record.Reference treatment of Tamayori-hime as a daughter of the sea-dragon god Watatsumi. (secondary)
- sibling: Toyotama-himeThe elder.Reference treatment of the two as sisters. (secondary)
- spouse: UgayafukiaezuHer nephew and foster-son.Reference treatment: Ugayafukiaezu married his aunt, who had raised him. (secondary)
Sources
- Tamayori-hime is the younger daughter of Watatsumi, who raised her sister's son Ugayafukiaezu, married him, and bore Jimmu, the first emperor.: Reference treatments of Tamayori-hime, Ugayafukiaezu and Jimmu. (secondary)