Izanagi (伊邪那岐命)
With Izanami, the deity who created the land of Japan and bore the deities.
Izanagi is one of the pair who, in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, are commanded by the heavenly deities to make the land of Japan, and who then bear the deities, the mountains and the seas. With Izanami he is looked to as a deity of musubi, the tying of bonds. Imado Shrine in Tokyo, which enshrines the pair, gives that as its stated reason for being a bond-tying shrine: they are worshipped as deities who tie bonds and firm the foundation of production.
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ShrineImado Shrine
- Love & Romance
- Bonds & Matchmaking
An Asakusa shrine founded in 1063 that calls itself a shrine of bond-tying, and which has run its own matchmaking gatherings since 2008.
ShrineSumiyoshi Shrine
- Protection & Safety
- Purification
Said to be the first of the 2,129 Sumiyoshi shrines in the country, and revered as a deity who guards against every calamity by means of purity of body and mind.
ShrineUmi Hachimangu
- Family & Home
- Fertility & Children
Empress Jingu gave birth to Emperor Ojin here, holding on to the branch of a pagoda tree, and the town’s name comes from that delivery.
Sacred MountainHikosan Jingu
- Career & Work
- Protection & Safety
A mountain shrine that began as “the mountain of the sun’s child” and had its name altered twice by imperial act, in 819 and again in 1729; its virtues are the guarding of farming, mines and factory safety, and fortune in winning.
ShrineMunakata Taisha Nakatsu-gu
One of the three halls of Munakata Taisha, standing on the island of Oshima, where Tagitsuhime is enshrined and the weaver and the herdsman each have a shrine of their own.
ShrineTamaki Shrine
- Protection & Safety
A shrine near the summit of Mount Tamaki, at 1,076 metres, transmitted as founded to enshrine Hayatama for the warding of fire from the palace and the driving off of evil.
ShrineWashio Atago Shrine
Transmitted as founded some nineteen hundred years ago, it took its present name in 1901 when Washio Shrine and Atago Shrine became one; it is one of the three great Atago shrines.
ShrineNiukawakami Shrine, Middle Shrine
Founded on an oracle — "if you raise my shrine pillars at Niukawakami and revere me, I shall send sweet rain for the realm and stop the long rains" — and dedicated to Mizuhanome, who governs water.
ShrineTaga Shrine
- Fertility & Children
- Health & Healing
- Love & Romance
A shrine to Izanagi and Izanami, the married pair who made the land and bore the eight million deities, where prayers run from long life to safety on a worksite.
ShrineKumata Jinja
- Protection & Safety
Founded in 862 with an oracle in the deity’s own voice: I am the guardian of this land, and if I am worshipped hereafter I shall make the realm at peace and the people prosperous.