Ōyamatsumi

• Ohoyamatsumi

Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (おおやまつみ, Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).

• Rhymes: -uːmi

Ōyamatsumi

1. (Japanese mythology, Shinto) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.[1]
   • 2003, Mark Teeuwen; Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, page 24:

     […] , this mountain was a cult site for the kami Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, and a shrine temple dedicated to these deities already existed there.

   • 2008, Susan Zitterbart, Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan, page 29:

     When Saichō (767-822) established Enryakuji on Mount Hiei as his Tendai center he adopted the already enshrined kami of the cultic site, Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, as tutelary deities of the monastic center.

   • 2009, Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 41:

     […] , and ritually they create the world and beget Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Ōyamatsumi.

   Synonym: Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

Ōyamatsumi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おおやまつみ