Ōyamatsumi

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.[1]
   • 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.

   Synonym: Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

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)

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

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Japanese

Romanization

Ōyamatsumi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おおやまつみ