
Deity
Toyotama-Bime
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.
Description
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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Sources
豊玉毘売 とよたまびめ
Primary source國學院大學 古典文化学事業「神名データベース」豊玉毘売。
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/toyotamabime/トヨタマビメ - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
豊玉毘売について、綿津見神の娘・火遠理命(山幸彦)の妃・鵜葺草葺不合命の母としての系譜、海神宮訪問譚と八尋和邇本性露見の場面を整理する。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%8A%E7%8E%89%E6%AF%98%E5%A3%B2
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