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by Micha F. Lindemans

The primordial sky god of Japanese Shintoism, the Creator. He is the great generative spirit of divine love from whom all beings spring. He rules the world together with his wife Amaterasu. He is the grandfather of Ninigi-no-mikoto, the founder of the Japanese imperial dynasty.