Toyotamahime
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- Deity.name
- Toyotama-hime豊玉姫
- Deity.image
- De_juwelen_fontein-Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1958-374.jpeg
- Deity.caption
- Toyotama-hime with her younger sister Tamayori-hime
- Deity.type
- Shinto
- Deity.father
- Watatsumi
- Deity.siblings
- Tamayori-hime
- Deity.children
- Ugayafukiaezu
- Deity.spouse
- Hoori
- Deity.cult_centre
- Kaijin Shrine
- Deity.cult_center
- Kaijin Shrine
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- Chikanobu-Toyotama-hime.jpg
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is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. She is the daughter of the sea deity, Watatsumi, and the wife of Hoori. She is known as the paternal grandmother of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
Toyotama marries the prince Hoori, but returns to the sea when he breaks the vow not to spy on her while she goes through childbirth. The child she gave birth to was Ugayafukiaezu.
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