Toyotama-hime

The forbidden look is the oldest tale-type in Japan and this is its founding instance: the wife who is not what she appears, the husband who cannot help himself, the marriage that ends at the moment of the birth. What she is when he looks varies between the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki — a great sea-creature in both, differently named — and the record does not pick one. The grandmother of the first emperor of Japan left because her husband could not keep a promise for one night.

Children

• Ugayafukiaezu

Domains

• the sea

Relations

• child of: RyūjinThe corpus carries Watatsumi and Ōwatatsumi as alternative names on its Ryūjin record, so the descent is written as a relation to that record.Reference treatment of Toyotama-hime as the daughter of the sea deity Watatsumi / Ōwatatsumi. (secondary)
• spouse: HooriReference treatment of the marriage of Hoori and Toyotamahime. (secondary)
• sibling: Tamayori-himeReference treatment of Tamayori-hime as the younger sister of Toyotama-hime, both daughters of Watatsumi. (secondary)
• mother of: UgayafukiaezuReference treatment of Ugayafukiaezu as her child, raised by her sister after she left. (secondary)

Sources

• Toyotama-hime is the daughter of the sea deity Watatsumi, wife of Hoori and mother of Ugayafukiaezu, who returned to the sea after being watched in childbirth and sent her sister Tamayori to raise the child.: Reference treatments of Toyotama-hime, Hoori and Tamayori-hime. (secondary)