Definify.com
Definition 2024
伊邪那岐
伊邪那岐
Japanese
Alternative forms
- izana as alteration of ishana in Buddhist term 伊舎那天 (Ishanaten, the ruler of the sixth heaven of the realm of cravings) + き (ki, “male”)
- This theory is one of the older ones, dating to a text in 1339 by Kitabatake Chikafusa, the 神皇正統記 (Jinnō Shōtōki, “Chronicles of the Authentic Lineages of the Divine Emperors”). The ishana in Ishanaten is a borrowing from Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “lord, ruler”), which is suggestively also used in Sanskrit as an epithet for Vishnu, the Hindu god of creation and existence. A possible flaw is that it may be unlikely to use a borrowed Buddhist term for a native creation god. However, Buddhism arrived in Japan around 552 (possibly even centuries earlier), or at least some 160 years before the first mention of Izanagi, perhaps leaving time for borrowed words to gain acceptance.
The pronunciation of the name shifted from Izanaki to Izanagi. The older Izanaki is still used as an alternate reading.[1]
Proper noun
伊邪那岐 (hiragana いざなぎ, katakana イザナギ, romaji Izanagi, alternative reading いざなき, katakana イザナキ, romaji Izanaki)
- (Japanese mythology, Shintō) Izanagi, the Japanese creator god, and the father of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi & Susanoo
See also
-
Izanagi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
伊邪那岐 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
- 伊邪那美, 伊弉冉 (いざなみ, Izanami): the Japanese creator goddess, wife of Izanagi
- 天照 (あまてらす, Amaterasu): the Japanese sun goddess
- 月読 (つくよみ, Tsukuyomi): the Japanese moon god
- 須佐之男 (すさのお, Susanoo): the Japanese storm god