Ame-no-Hohi-no-Mikoto

Ame-no-Hohi-no-Mikoto is a heavenly deity recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE). In Kojiki, upper volume, the ukehi (oath) section, he is the second of the five male deities born from the mist that arose when Amaterasu Omikami chewed and spat out Susanoo's ten-grasp sword. In the kuni-yuzuri section, he is the first deity dispatched from the high heavens to Okuninushi, but Kojiki records that 'for three years he sent no report,' meaning he submitted to Okuninushi in the central reed-plain land. Nihon Shoki (Jindai-ge, ninth-segment alternate texts) preserves the parallel account. His father is Susanoo (as the generative father of the ukehi) or Amaterasu; his elder brother is Ame-no-Oshihomimi (origin of the imperial line). His son Takehiratori-no-Mikoto becomes the ancestor of the Izumo-no-Kuni-no-Miyatsuko (Izumo-no-Omi). Shinsen Shojiroku (815 CE) records the Izumo-no-Omi, Musashi-no-Kuni-no-Miyatsuko, and Kamitsukenu clans of eastern Japan as descendants. He is enshrined at Nogi Shrine in Yasugi, Shimane (one of the four great deities of Izumo); the Shinkoden of Izumo Taisha; and ancillary shrines of the Musashi Hikawa Shrine in Saitama. The shinka-sozoku-shiki and shinsui-sozoku-shiki performed at the succession of the Izumo Kuni-no-Miyatsuko houses (Senge and Kitajima) continue today as the core ritual of Izumo-no-Kuni-no-Miyatsuko worship descended from Ame-no-Hohi.