Ōyamatsumi
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːmi
Proper noun
Ōyamatsumi
- (Japanese mythology, Shinto) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.
- Synonym: Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto
- 2003, Mark Teeuwen, Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, page 24:
- […] , this mountain was a cult site for the kami Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, and a shrine temple dedicated to these deities already existed there.
- 2008, Susan Zitterbart, Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan, page 29:
- When Saichō (767-822) established Enryakuji on Mount Hiei as his Tendai center he adopted the already enshrined kami of the cultic site, Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, as tutelary deities of the monastic center.
- 2009, Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 41:
- […] , and ritually they create the world and beget Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Ōyamatsumi.
Coordinate terms
Translations
Japanese sea and mountain god
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Japanese
Romanization
Ōyamatsumi