Shinatsuhiko, the ancient wind kami born to Izanagi and Izanami in the Kojiki, was absorbed into the Buddhist-influenced figure of Fujin, who inherited the wind god's role while acquiring the iconic bag and fearsome green-skinned appearance from Greco-Buddhist artistic tradition.
Fujin and Raijin stand together as twin guardians at temple gates across Japan, wind and thunder inseparable — their pairing at Sanjusangendo and Sensoji enshrining a bond older than Buddhism's arrival, two forces of storm that no tradition ever separates.
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