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Mizuhanome (彌都波能売神 or みつはのめのかみ) is a
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in
Japanese mythology Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto and Buddhist traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology. The history of thousands of year ...
. She is a
kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
of water. She was born from the urine of
Izanami , formally known as , is the creator deity of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband Izanagi are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifest ...
.


Worship

She is enshrined at Atago Shrine. Ashiya Shrine and
Niukawakami Shrine , also known as Nibukawakami Jinja, is a Shinto shrine located at Higashiyoshino in Nara, Japan. History The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messenger ...
are also dedicated to her.


Names

She is also referred to as Mizuhanome or Itsu no Mitsuhanome no kami. In
romaji The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as . Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from Ch ...
her name is read as Mitsuhanomenokami. The ''mitsu'' or ''mizu'' in her name means water and ''me'' is a feminine suffix. Her name is explained as ''water snake woman'' or ''water dragon woman''.


In popular culture

According to director
Makoto Shinkai , known as , is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) ' ...
the name for the character Mitsuha Miyamizu from the movie
Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commissi ...
is said to come from the goddess.


Related items

* Family tree of Japanese deities *
Japanese gods This is a list of divinities native to Japanese beliefs and religious traditions. Many of these are from Shinto, while others were imported via Buddhism or Taoism and were "integrated" into Japanese mythology and folklore. Major kami * Amateras ...
*
Suijin is the Shinto god of water in Japanese mythology. The term Suijin (literally: ''water people'' or ''water deity'') refers to the heavenly and earthly manifestations of the benevolent Shinto divinity of water. It also refers to a wide variety of my ...
* Yoshikami God


See also

* '' Id:Invaded''


References

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