Ukanomitama

Uka-no-Mitama (宇迦之御魂神, Uka-no-Mitama-no-kami, or 倉稲魂命, Uka-no-Mitama-no-Mikoto) is a deity in classical Japanese mythology, associated with food and agriculture, sometimes identified with Inari, the deity of rice.

He is the son of the Shinto deity Susanoo and the female deity, Kamu'ō-ichi-hime (神大市比売), and also the younger brother of Toshigami (年神). Kamu'ō-ichi-hime is the youngest sister of Kushinadahime, who are both the daughters of Ōyamatsumi (大山津見神). Ōyamatsumi (大山津見神) is the half-brother of Susano'o.

Uga-no-Mitama-no-kami is translated as "the spirit of the rice in storehouses."[1]

References
  1. "The Fox and the Badger in Japanese Folklore" by Dr. M. W. de Visser, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (Asiatic Society of Japan, 1908)
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