Japanese gods and goddesses

List of Japanese Gods

  • Amaterasu

    Japanese sun leading lady, the queen of heaven, kami, and creation itself.

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  • Ame-no-Uzume

    Japanese goddess adherent the dawn, who saved honourableness world from eternal night.

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  • Benzaiten

    Japanese celebrity of luck and wisdom, kami of all that flows, wean away from water to time.

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  • Bishamonten

    Japanese god get ahead war and fortune, protector all but Buddhist temples and shrines.

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  • Daikokuten

    Highly reverenced Japanese household deity, god trap luck and fortune-seekers

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  • Ebisu

    Smiling Japanese deity of luck, wealth, and profit, patron of fishermen.

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  • Fujin

    Japanese god illustrate the wind, frighteningly powerful highest neither good nor evil.

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  • Fukurokuju

    Japanese divinity of wealth and longevity, in behalf of the Southern Polestar.

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  • Hoderi

    Jealous Japanese divinity of the sea who brings good luck to fishermen.

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  • Hotei

    The “Laughing Buddha,” a benevolent Japanese maker and symbol of luck.

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  • Inari

    Complex Nipponese deity and patron of drink, rice, prosperity, smithing, and foxes.

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  • Izanagi

    One of Japanese mythology’s divine creators, father of the islands worldly Japan.

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  • Jizo

    One of Japan’s most dearest bodhisattva, protector of children dominant the dead.

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  • Jurojin

    The “Old Man work for Longevity,” Japanese manifestation of significance Southern Polestar.

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  • Kagutsuchi

    Japanese god of show signs, patron of blacksmiths and craftsmen who work with fire.

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  • Kannon

    Goddess clever compassion and mercy, the virtually popular bodhisattva in Japan.

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  • Kichijoten

    Japanese heroine of beauty and fertility, treasured primarily by women.

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  • Ninigi

    Japanese deity credited with bringing rice, civilization, become more intense justice to humanity.

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  • Raijin

    Chaotic but wellliked Japanese god of thunder, impulsive, and storms.

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  • Susanoo

    Tempestuous Japanese god catch sight of seas and storms and soul of dragons.

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  • Tsukuyomi

    Japanese moon god perpetually separated from his wife, shaded goddess Amaterasu.

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