Ogetsu-hime’s Family Tree

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Family

• Izanagi(parent),Izanami(parent),Amaterasu(sibling),Awashima(sibling),Ebisu(sibling),Kagutsuchi(sibling),Kukunochi(sibling),Oyamatsumi(sibling),Shinatsuhiko(sibling),Susanoo(sibling),Tsukuyomi(sibling)— Marriage · Miraculous

  Izanagi and Izanami, the divine couple who shaped the islands of Japan, brought forth a host of kami — Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo among the greatest, alongside Kagutsuchi whose birth killed Izanami, the mountain lord Ōyamatsumi, Shinatsuhiko, Kukunochi, Ōgetsu-hime, Ebisu, and Awashima.

  ⚠ The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki disagree on whether Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo were born to both Izanagi and Izanami or emerged from Izanagi's purification alone.

Slain by

• Susanoo

  Susanoo slew Ōgetsu-hime after discovering she produced food from her own body. From her corpse grew the five grains and silkworms, making this killing the mythological origin of Japanese agriculture and of the food kami tradition that includes Inari.

  ⚠ The Kojiki attributes this killing to Susanoo. The Nihon Shoki assigns the parallel food-deity murder to Tsukuyomi, who kills Uke Mochi instead.

• Tsukuyomi

  Tsukuyomi killed Ōgetsu-hime (called Uke Mochi in the Nihon Shoki) after she produced food from her body to honor him. From her corpse sprang rice, millet, wheat, beans, and silkworms — the staples of Japanese agriculture.

  ⚠ The Nihon Shoki attributes this killing to Tsukuyomi (calling the victim Uke Mochi). The Kojiki assigns a parallel killing of the food goddess Ōgetsu-hime to Susanoo instead.

Associated with

• Amaterasu,Tsukuyomi

  Amaterasu sent Tsukuyomi as her envoy to visit Ōgetsu-hime. His killing of the food goddess caused Amaterasu to banish him permanently, separating sun and moon into day and night (Nihon Shoki).