Shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintois ...
goddess''Shinto Encyclopedia Volume One'' piece 264 (original 455 pages) Kukurihimenomomikoto Kikurihime/ref>''Encyclopedia of the World Goddess'' pages 42-43 "Kukurihime Kikurihime" venerated as (also known as ) at
Shirayama Hime Shrine
is a Shinto shrine in the Sannomiyamachi neighborhood of the city of Hakusan in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the ''ichinomiya'' of former Kaga Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on May 6. It is the head shrine of ap ...
in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.''Shirayama Hime Shrine history compilation committee edition'' "Hakusan Faith illustration" (Shirayama Hime Shrine, 2003)''Emperor Keishinkai Digital Collection'', National Diet Library "Kokuzai Chusha Hakusanjo Shrine" "National Famous Shrine Photographs," Imperial Keishinkai, December 1922 .''Morokami Divine Festival Deity Dictionary'' pp. 446-447 "Shirayama Hime Shrine" She is equated with , a goddess worshipped in
Kaga Province
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the south and western portion of Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Kaga bordered on Echizen, Etchū, Hida, and Noto Provinces. It was part of Hokurikudō Circuit. Its abb ...
. She is mentioned in '' Nihongi'' (''Nihon Shoki''), but not in '' Kojiki''.''Tonerishin'nō-hen'', edited by the National Diet Library Digital Collection "Nippon Shoki Vol. 30 (1)".''Hakusan Festival Shinko Volume 9'' (Original page 8) She is also venerated at
Yasukuni Shrine
is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan, from the Boshin War of 1868–1869, to the two Sino-Japanese Wars, 1894–1895 and 1937–1945 resp ...
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Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
Yomi
is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). According to Shinto mythology as related in '' Kojiki'', this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to retur ...
, after Izanagi used the great god Michikaeshi Ōkami to block the entry to Yomi no kuni. Her words are praised by Izanagi,Taro Sakamoto, Saburo Ienaga, Mitsusada Inoue, Shin Ono School Note "''Nihon Shoki'' (1)" Iwanami Shoten , September 1994. . but what she said to him was not recorded (or erased),''Apocalypse of the gods'', pages 75-77, "Genealogy of the erased Hakusan dynasty" which is strange, since Kukurihime is worshipped in 3,000 shrines across Japan,Brian Bocking, ''A Popular Dictionary of Shinto'' (Routledge, 2005).Stuart D. B. Picken, ''Historical Dictionary of Shinto'' (Scarecrow Press, 2010) p. 102. and was later merged with Kannon Bosatsu.# ''Mountain spirit power'' 180 pages