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Haruyama-no-Kasumiotoko

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Haruyama-no-Kasumiotoko is a deity name attested in the Ojin chapter of Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin University deity-name database.

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Haruyama-no-Kasumiotoko is a deity name attested in the Ojin chapter passage on autumn and spring mountains in Kojiki (712 CE).

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Haruyama-no-Kasumiotoko is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the Ojin chapter passage on the deities of autumn and spring mountains in Kojiki (712 CE) Middle Volume, where the spring-mountain figure contests with his brother Akiyama-no-Shitabiotoko. The database preserves the name with its scene reference. The episode is read as a seasonal narrative of mountain transformation; commentators differ on the symbolic content. IZANORA registers the entry as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.

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