Ōyamatsumi

English

Alternative forms

• Ohoyamatsumi

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːmi

Proper noun

Ōyamatsumi

1. (Japanese mythology, Shinto) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.

   Synonym: Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

   • 2003, Mark Teeuwen, Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, page 24:

     […] , this mountain was a cult site for the kami Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, and a shrine temple dedicated to these deities already existed there.

   • 2008, Susan Zitterbart, Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan, page 29:

     When Saichō (767-822) established Enryakuji on Mount Hiei as his Tendai center he adopted the already enshrined kami of the cultic site, Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, as tutelary deities of the monastic center.

   • 2009, Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 41:

     […] , and ritually they create the world and beget Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Ōyamatsumi.

Coordinate terms

• Amaterasu
• Ame-no-Uzume
• Izanagi
• Izanami
• Kagutsuchi
• Susanoo
• Tsukuyomi

Translations

Japanese sea and mountain god

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大山津見／大山津见 (Dàshānjīnjiàn)

• Japanese: 大山祇, 大山津見, 大山積 (おおやまつみ, Ōyamatsumi), 大山積命 (おおやまつみのみこと, Ōyamatsumi no Mikoto), 大山積神 (おおやまつみのかみ, Ōyamatsumi no Kami)
• Korean: 오야마쓰미 (Oyamasseumi), 오야마쓰미노 카미 (Oyamasseumino kami)
• Marathi: ओउयामात्सुमी m (ouyāmātsumī)

Japanese

Romanization

Ōyamatsumi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おおやまつみ