Yamada-no-Sohodo

Yamada-no-Sohodo is a deity name registered in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultures Project Shinmei Database. According to the database, the deity is cited from the Kojiki (712 CE), upper scroll, in the passage on Okuninushi-no-Kami's land-making (kuni-tsukuri). The synopsis treats the name as one of several deities tied to that scene in the mythic narrative. The figure is commonly understood as the scarecrow-deity Kuebiko, watching from the rice fields. Because identifications can vary across sources, IZANORA preserves the textual citation as the anchor and adds relations from the recorded passage rather than from later interpretive layers.