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Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi

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Sessha (subshrine) for the two at Tsuno Shrine

Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi (アシナヅチ・テナヅチ) is a pair of Japanese deities[1]

In ancient Japanese stories called the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, there was a god named Susanoo who was sent away from his home in the heavens to live on Earth in a place called Izumo. There, he met an old couple named Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi who were children of a mountain god called Ōyamatsumi. They told him about a scary monster called Yamata no Orochi, which had eaten seven of their eight daughters. Susanoo offered to kill the monster if they would give him their only surviving daughter, Kushinadahime, to be his wife.[2][3]

Susano'o defeated Orochi and built a palace in the land of Suwa Province. He then appointed Ashinazuchi as the leader of the palace and gave him the name Inada no Miyatsuko Suga no Yatsunomimi no Kami (稲田宮使諏訪之八意名神)

Family tree

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Deities of seventeen generations in the Kojiki
Ōyamatsumi[4][5][6][7]1. Susanoo[4][8][9][10]: 277 
Kamuo Ichihime [en][4][6][7][11][12]
Konohanachiru-hime [en][4][13][10]: 277 Ashinazuchi[4][14][15]Tenazuchi[4][15]Toshigami[4][12][11]Ukanomitama[4][6][7]
(Inari)[16]
Oyamakui[4][17]
Kushinadahime[4][15][18][10]: 277 
2. Yashimajinumi [en][4][13][10]: 277 
Kagu-tsuchi [en][19]
Kuraokami [en][4][20]
Hikawahime [ja][4][21][10]: 278 3. Fuha-no-Mojikunusunu [ja][4][10]: 278 
4. Fukabuchi-no-Mizuyarehana [ja][4][10]: 278 Ame-no-Tsudoechine [ja][4][10]: 278 Funozuno [ja][4][10]: 278 
Sashikuni Okami [ja][4][10]: 278 5. Omizunu [en][4][10]: 278 Futemimi [ja][4][10]: 278 
Sashikuni Wakahime [ja][4][10]: 278 6. Ame-no-Fuyukinu [en][4][22][23][10]: 278 Yashimamuji [ja][4]
Kamuyatate-hime [Wikidata][4][24] 7. Ōnamuchi[4][25][10]: 278 [26]Tottori-no-Kami [ja][4]
Mishimamizokui-no-Mikoto [ja][4]
Kotoshironushi[4][27][28] Seyadatara-hime [en][4][29] Takeminakata [en][4][30][31]
8. Torinarumi-no-Kami [ja][4][32]Hinateri-Nukada-Bichio-Ikochini-no-Kami [ja][4][32]

JAPANESE
EMPERORS
711–585 BC

Jimmu[4][33]
660–585 BC(1) 		Himetataraisuzu-hime[4][33]9. Kuninotoshimi-no-Kami [ja][4][32]Ashinataka-no-Kami [ja][4][32]Kamo no Okimi [en][4][27][34]
Amanomikemunushi-no-Kami [Wikidata]
632–549 BC

Suizei[35][36][37]
581–549 BC(2)		Kawamata-hime [ja][4]10. Hayamike-no-Takekasayanosunumi-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Sakitamahime [Wikidata][4][32]
Kuraokami [en]
Annei11. Mikemunushi-no-Hiko-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Hinarashibime [Wikidata][4][32]Hihiraginosonohanamadomi-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]
Itoku12. Tahiriki-Shimarumi-no-Kami [ja][4][32]Ikutamatakitamahime-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Shikiyamanushi-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]
Kōshō13. Mironami-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Aonuma-Mashi-no-Maou-hime [Wikidata][4][32]Ōyamatsumi
Kōan14. Nunobutomi-Torinarumi-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Wakatsukime Kami [Wikidata][4][32]Amanosagiri-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]
Kōrei15. Ame-no-Hibaraooshinadomi-no-Kami [ja][4][32]Totsumatone-no-Kami [Wikidata][4][32]
Kōgen16. Totsuyami-Sakitara-no-Kami [ja][4][32]
Kaika
Sujin
Imperial House of Japan
  • Pink is female.
  • Blue is male.
  • Grey means other or unknown.
  • Clans, families, people groups are in green.

References

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  1. ↑ Fr?d?ric, L.; Louis-Frédéric; Roth, K. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press reference library. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  2. ↑ Chamberlain (1882). Section XVIII.—The Eight-Forked Serpent.
  3. ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-1400878000.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Kojiki
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  6. 1 2 3 Chamberlain (1882). Section XIX.—The Palace of Suga.
  7. 1 2 3 Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-of-the-Great-Land.
  8. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya (10 May 2005). "Susanoo". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  9. ↑ "Susanoo | Description & Mythology". Encyclopedia Britannica.
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  15. 1 2 3 "My Shinto: Personal Descriptions of Japanese Religion and Culture". www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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  22. ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. p. 92.
  23. ↑ Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-Of-The-Great Land.
  24. ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. pp. 104–112.
  25. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya; Tatsuya, Yumiyama (20 October 2005). "Ōkuninushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  26. ↑ Atsushi, Kadoya (21 April 2005). "Ōnamuchi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  27. 1 2 Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. Columbia University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780231049405.
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  30. ↑ Sendai Kuji Hongi, Book 4 (先代舊事本紀 巻第四), in Keizai Zasshisha, ed. (1898). Kokushi-taikei, vol. 7 (国史大系 第7巻). Keizai Zasshisha. pp. 243–244.
  31. ↑ Chamberlain (1882). Section XXIV.—The Wooing of the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand-Spears.
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  33. 1 2 Kazuhiko, Nishioka (26 April 2005). "Isukeyorihime". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
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