Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto

Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto is a heavenly deity recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE). In Kojiki (upper volume, Ame-no-Iwato section), when the eight million deities gathered at the Yasunokawara during Amaterasu's concealment, Ame-no-Koyane joined Futodama-no-Mikoto in chanting the ritual prayer (norito), drawing the boar-shoulder bone from Mount Amenokagu and the haha-ka wood from the same mountain for divination by burning. In the Tenson Korin section, he is one of the Five Itsutomo-no-O attending Ninigi-no-Mikoto in his descent. Nihon Shoki provides parallel accounts. Shinsen Shojiroku (815 CE) records Ame-no-Koyane as the ancestor of the Nakatomi clan and the Fujiwara clan. His consort is Ame-no-Mitsutamashou-Hime-no-Mikoto and his son Ame-no-Oshikumone-no-Mikoto, from whom the lineage descends through Nakatomi-no-Kamatari to the Fujiwara. He is enshrined as one of the four Fujiwara ancestral deities at Kasuga Taisha in Nara, founded in Jingo Keiun 2 (768 CE), and at Hiraoka Shrine in Higashiosaka (ichinomiya of Kawachi Province), reputed as the original site of Kasuga, as well as at Yoshida Shrine in Kyoto.