Ninigi-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 瓊瓊杵尊) is a deity in Japanese mythology. (-no-Mikoto here is an honorific title applied to the names of Japanese gods; Ninigi...

Hoori no Mikoto), also known as Hikohohodemi no Mikoto (彦火火出見尊), is a figure in Japanese mythology, the third and youngest son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and the...

Inahi no Mikoto (Japanese: 稲飯命, 741-681 BC according to traditional dating) was a Japanese legendary character. In Japanese traditional mythology, he...

'no Mikoto' here is an honorific, denoting divinity or royalty. Ugayafukiaezu was a child of Hoori, the son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, who was sent...

Ugayafukiaezu. Amaterasu had a son called Ame no Oshihomimi no Mikoto and through him a grandson named Ninigi-no-Mikoto. She sent her grandson to the Japanese...

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the...

orthography: スサノヲ, 'Susanowo'), often referred to by the honorific title Susanoo-no-Mikoto, is a kami in Japanese mythology. The younger brother of Amaterasu, goddess...

(火須勢理命) is a god that appears in Japanese mythology. Second child of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and Konohanasakuya-hime. He is considered to be the great-uncle of...

Ninigi-no-Mikoto. He also played important roles in the events of the founding of Japan, such as selecting the gods who would tag along with Ninigi and...

(天孫降臨) is the descent of Amaterasu's grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto from Heaven (Takamagahara) to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni; according to legend, the direct place...

the Yasakani no magatama were hung from a tree to lure out Amaterasu from a cave. They were given to Amaterasu's grandson, Ninigi-no-Mikoto, when he went...

at which Ame-no-Oshihomimi recommends that his son, Hikoho-no-Ninigi-no-Mikoto (日子番能邇邇芸命), be sent instead. Amaterasu bequeaths to Ninigi three sacred...

identified with Ukanomitama and Buddhist deity Dakiniten. Ninigi-no-Mikoto (瓊瓊杵尊) Commonly called Ninigi, he was the grandson of Amaterasu. His great-grandson...

Tamanooya-no-Mikoto (玉祖命), also known as Tamanoya, is a kami from Japanese mythology. He is believed to be the creator of Yasakani no Magatama. Tama-no-iwaya...

and long nose. At first he is unwilling to let Ninigi pass until persuaded by Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, the kami of dance and the arts, whom he later marries...

Itsuse no Mikoto (Japanese: 彦五瀬命) is a Japanese deity. He was the older brother of Emperor Jimmu. His name means virtue and glory of the imperial throne...

circle. In Japanese mythology, the sacred treasures were bestowed on Ninigi-no-Mikoto, the grandson of the goddess Amaterasu, at the advent of Tenson kōrin...

younger sister of Omoikane. She is the goddess of textiles and mother of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and Amenohoakari, and thus an ancestor of Jimmu. The meaning of her...

Mikeiri no Mikoto Child: Jimmu Husband: Hori-no-mikoto - Kujiki Son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto. Child: Inauguration of Takeshi (Mikoto Takeiki, Mikoto Takekura)-"Kujiki...

Iwa-Naga-hime, instead, but Ninigi had his heart set on Sakuya-hime. Oho-Yama reluctantly agreed and Ninigi and Ko-no-hana married. Because Ninigi refused Iwa-Naga...

daughter of Takamimusubi. He is the grandfather of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, who descended on Ashihara no Nakatsukuni first as a member of the Imperial Family...

fisherman. He is called Hoderi no mikoto (火照命) in the Kojiki, and Ho-no-susori no mikoto (火闌降命) or Ho-no-suseri no mikoto (火酢芹命) in the Nihon Shoki. In...

Amaterasu's grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto from Heaven (Takamagahara) to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, Ninigi has encountered Ōyama-tsumi's daughter Ko-no-hanasakuya-hime...

Mikeiri no Mikoto (Japanese: 三毛入野命, also known as Mikenu, d. 663 BC according to traditional dating) is a Japanese deity. He was the older brother of...

Takamimusubi's daughter, Yorozuhatahime. Ninigi-no-Mikoto is his younger brother, but in another book of Nihon Shoki, Ninigi is his father. Otherwise, in book...

(Takami-musubi-no-kami, Sukuna-hiko-no-kami, Mikogami, Ama-tsu-hiko-hi-no-ninigi-no-mikoto, Tamayori-hime-no-mikoto, and Yorozu-hata-toyo-akitsushi-hime-no-mikoto)...

Hohodemi alias Hoori, Jinmu's grandfather), Amaterasu, Amenooshihomimi, Ninigi-no-Mikoto, and Emperor Jimmu. While the original myth includes a tragic divorce...

He fell in love with Takuhadachiji-hime, and then later on fathered Ninigi-no-Mikoto. The shrine Nogami-jinja is dedicated to Oshihomimi and his wife. The...

(箱根権現). The primary kami of Hakone Shrine are Ninigi-no-Mikoto (瓊瓊杵尊) Konohanasakuya-hime (木花之開耶姫) Hoori-no-Mikoto (火遠理命) They are known collectively as the...

Ninigi-no-Mikoto (瓊瓊杵尊), descended from Takamagahara to rule the area. From then on, the emperor, a descendant of Ninigi-no-Mikoto owned Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni...