Tamayori-Hime

Tamayori-Hime-no-Mikoto is recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as a sea-deity goddess. After Toyotama-Hime-no-Mikoto left the child Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto and returned to the sea, her younger sister Tamayori-Hime was entrusted with the child's upbringing and later became his consort. The Kojiki Upper Volume closing passage records that she bore Itsuse-no-Mikoto, Inahi-no-Mikoto, Mikenu-no-Mikoto and Wakamikenu-no-Mikoto, the last being Kamuyamato-Iwarebiko-no-Mikoto, later Emperor Jimmu. Her father is the sea deity Watatsumi-no-Kami, her elder sister is Toyotama-Hime, and her consort is her own nephew Ugayafukiaezu. The name Tamayori in later usage also denotes any female to whom a deity attaches. She is enshrined at Udo Jingu in Miyazaki, Tamasaki Jinja in Chiba, Shimogamo Jinja in Kyoto, and elsewhere; at Shimogamo she is paired with Kamigamo Jinja as the mother of Wakeikazuchi-no-Kami.