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Toyotama-Bime

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Toyotama-Bime is a deity name attested in the visit to the sea-deity palace and the birth of Ugayafukiaezu in Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin University deity-name database.

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Toyotama-Bime is a deity name attested in the sea-deity palace and Ugayafukiaezu birth passages of Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin deity-name database.

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Toyotama-Bime is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the visit to the sea-deity palace and the birth of Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume, where the daughter of the sea deity Watatsumi-no-Kami weds Hoori-no-Mikoto. The database preserves the name with its scene reference and notes that Toyotama-Bime departs back to the sea after giving birth, entrusting the child to her younger sister Tamayori-Bime. IZANORA registers this entry as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.

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