Oyamatsumi’s Family Tree

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Family

• Izanagi(parent),Izanami(parent),Amaterasu(sibling),Awashima(sibling),Ebisu(sibling),Kagutsuchi(sibling),Kukunochi(sibling),Ogetsu-hime(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.

• Iwanagahime(child),Konohanasakuya-hime(child)

  Ōyamatsumi, the great mountain god, fathered Iwanagahime and her younger sister Konohanasakuya-hime — the Rock-Long Princess and the Blossom Princess, embodying permanence and fleeting beauty.

• Ashinazuchi(child)

  Ashinazuchi identifies himself to Susanoo as a child of Ōyamatsumi, the Great Mountain Deity, when recounting the terror of Yamata no Orochi in Izumo (Kojiki).

• Kamu-Oichihime(child)

  Ōyamatsumi is the father of Kamu-Ōichihime, the mountain god's daughter who married Susanoo and bore agricultural deities.

Associated with

• Iwanagahime,Konohanasakuya-hime,Ninigi

  Ōyamatsumi offered both daughters to Ninigi: Iwanagahime (immortality) and Konohanasakuya-hime (beauty). Ninigi chose only Konohanasakuya-hime, and Ōyamatsumi declared his descendants would live lives as brief as cherry blossoms.

• Hoori

  Ōyamatsumi's curse upon the imperial line — spoken when Ninigi rejected his daughter Iwanagahime — decreed that Hoori and all descendants would have mortal lifespans rather than the eternal endurance of stone. The curse directly shaped Hoori's fate.