Ikutsuhikone

Ikutsuhikone
Genealogy
Parents
SiblingsAme-no-oshihomimi (brother)

Amatsuhikone (brother) Ame no Hohi (brother)

Kumanokusubi (brother)

Ikutsuhikone (Japanese: イクツヒコネ,活津日子根命/活津彦根命) is a god of Japanese mythology. He is the fourth son of Amaterasu. In many versions of his birth story, he is born from Amaterasu’s jewels after being chewed up and spat out by Susanoo-no-Mikoto.[1][2][3]

He was fourth born of the five children of the jewels of Amaterasu.[4][5] In another version he comes from Susanoo-no-Mikoto's jewels directly and is thus his son.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Ikutsuhikone • A History of Japan - 日本歴史". A History of Japan - 日本歴史. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  2. ^ "Amaterasu". Mythopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  3. ^ Aston, William George (1896). "Book I" . Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. p. 35  – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ Havens, Norman; Inoue, Nobutaka (2006). An Encyclopedia of Shinto (Shinto Jiten): Kami. Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University. ISBN 978-4-905853-08-4.
  5. ^ "The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese". 1990.