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Ichikishimahime
Hetsu-gū (辺津宮) where she is worshipped in Munakata Taisha
Other namesSayori-hime[1][2]
Major cult centreMunakata Taisha
Usa Jingū
Matsunoo Taisha [en]
Yagi Shrine [ja; simple; en:draft; fr]
Personal information
SpouseAmenohoakari [en; fr]
Parents
SiblingsTakiribime [ja; simple; en:draft; fr], Tagitsuhime [ja; simple; en:draft; fr]

Ichikishimahime [ja; fr] is a Kunitsukami [en; fr] she is one of the three daughters of Susanoo born by his challenge with Amaterasu who are worshipped at Munakata Taisha.[3][4][2][5]

She was moved from Tashima Shrine to Munakata Taisha, so that shrine is called Moto-Munakata.[6][7][page needed]

She is also called Sayori-hime [ja; en; en:draft; simple],[1][2] and is not to be confused with Matsura Sayohime [en] who is said to be buried at Tashima Shrine.[8][9][10]

She is worshipped at Yagi Shrine [ja; simple; en; fr] under the name Sayori-hime no Mikoto [ja; en; en:draft; simple].[1]

She was syncretized with many other deities in medieval times such as a younger sister of Empress Jingu, or as Benzaiten or as a daughter of Sagara [en].[5]

diagram explaining the structure of Munakata Taisha and its relationship to theology between the three sisters and Sumiyoshi sanjin and Watatsumi

Syncretism with Benzaiten

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Due to her status as a water deity, Benzaiten was also linked with nāgas, dragons, and snakes. Over time, Benzaiten became identified with the Japanese snake kami Ugajin [fr; en]. She also became identified with the kami Ichikishimahime [ja; fr].

Benzaiten was also adopted as a female kami in Shinto, with the name Ichikishima-hime-no-mikoto (市杵島姫命).[11] This kami is one of three kami believed to be daughters of the sun goddess Amaterasu, the ancestress of the imperial family.

She is also believed by Tendai [fr; en] Buddhists to be the essence of the kami Ugajin [fr; en], whose effigy she sometimes carries on her head together with a torii (see photo below).[12] As a consequence, she is sometimes also known as Uga (宇賀) Benzaiten or Uga Benten.[13]

 


See Also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 [https://web.archive.org/web/20160818202730/http://orange.zero.jp/hara.park/saijin.html "��^�_�Ђ̌�Ր_"]. web.archive.org. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2024. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 1 (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ichikishimahime • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史". . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  3. Chamberlain (1882). Section XIII.—The August Oath.
  4. "  Book I". Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. Wikisource. 1896.   35. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細". 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  6. Kalland, Arne (1 January 1995). Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1632-2.
  7. Rots, Aike P.; Teeuwen, Mark (2 April 2020). Sacred Heritage in Japan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-04563-5.
  8. Jōya, Moku (1963). Mock Jōya's Things Japanese. Tokyo News Service Press. p. 222.
  9. "September Sights: The Season of Festivals". Japan. No. 59. Based on material supplied by Shiga Shigetaka. The Japan Office. 1915. p. 16.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. Murao, Rikitarō (1968), "Tsukishi no no to Chikuhi no umi no kaiko: Nihon&kaigai shūkyō kōshō kenkyū" 「筑紫の野」と「筑肥の海」の懐古―日本・海外宗教交渉略史研究―, Wasada shōgaku (205): 103
  11. Bocking, Brian (1997). A Popular Dictionary of Shinto - 'Benzaiten'. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-1051-5.
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  13. Ludvik, Catherine. “Uga-Benzaiten: The Goddess and the Snake.” Impressions, no. 33, 2012, pp. 94–109. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42597966.

Bibliography

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  • Aoki, Michiko Y., tr. (1997). Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. ISBN 978-0924304323.
  • Aston, William George, tr. (1896). Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. 2 vols. Kegan Paul. 1972 Tuttle reprint.
  • Chamberlain, Basil H., tr. (1919). The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters. 1981 Tuttle reprint.
  • Gadeleva, Emilia (2000). "Susanoo: One of the Central Gods in Japanese Mythology". Nichibunken Japan Review: Bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 12 (12). International Research Center for Japanese Studies: 168. doi:10.15055/00000288. JSTOR 25791053.
  • McMullin, Neil (February 1988). "On Placating the Gods and Pacifying the Populace: The Case of the Gion "Goryō" Cult". History of Religions. 27 (3). The University of Chicago Press: 270–293. doi:10.1086/463123. JSTOR 1062279. S2CID 162357693.
  • Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400878000.
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