Home›Japanese Deities›Era Attested Start Year›By Five-Year Period›710 to 714Browse By710 to 714This page groups deities by the earliest year a surviving written or inscribed source places them, sorting gods by how far back their documented worship can actually be traced. Archaeologists call this kind of earliest possible date a terminus post quem, which Wikipedia defines as "the earliest date the event may have happened or the item was in existence." Browsing by first attestation separates deities known from the oldest surviving records from ones who only appear in much later texts.FactsLearn More710 to 714SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe kami of Shinto together with the buddhas and bodhisattvas long worshipped alongside them. Kami are not a fixed pantheon: the word covers sacred powers in nature, places, ancestors and exceptional people, held to be innumerable, and the named great kami of the eighth-century chronicles are a small and deliberately organised part of what is venerated at shrines. 2AttestationEra of AttestationWell-attestedThe named kami first appear as an ordered corpus in the Kojiki of 712 and the Nihon Shoki of 720, compiled to serve the claims of the imperial court. Shrine worship continues today. 2Veneration TodayWell-attestedVenerated today at shrines throughout Japan and in the Japanese diaspora. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDeities 1OriginsOrigin of the NameWell-attestedKami is the tradition's own word and is not a translation of god. It names a quality of awe-commanding power that may belong to a deity, a place, a natural force, an ancestor or a living person, and it takes no plural. 2Learn MoreThe kami of Japan This group holds the deities of Shinto, the indigenous tradition of Japan, together with figures shared with Japanese Buddhism. The Shinto divine is the kami (sacred powers present in nature, ancestors, places and exceptional beings), understood as innumerable rather than as a fixed pantheon. The browser will find the great kami of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki: the sun-goddess Amaterasu, from whom the imperial line is traced; her brother the storm-god Susanoo; the moon-god Tsukuyomi; the creator pair Izanagi and Izanami; and popular figures such as Inari and the Seven Lucky Gods. The entries note the long entanglement of Shinto and Buddhist worship in Japanese history.710 to 714Filter Results15 entriesPlanetary FaceAllChiron (1)Jupiter (1)Mercury (1)Moon (1)Neptune (1)Pluto (1)Sun (1)Child OfAllIzanagi (2)Ninigi (1)Watatsumi (1)Interpretatio OfAllJupiter (1)Mercury (1)HistoricityAllLegendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (1)Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being (14)TheologyAllAnimist: persons and powers in land, water and living things (6)Polytheistic: many gods (9)ArchetypeAllThe Caregiver (2)The Innocent (1)The Magician (2)The Ruler (1)The Sage (1)Veneration StatusAllActively venerated in a living tradition (15)Worshipped InAllShinto (15)Domain / FunctionAllAgriculture and harvest (3)Chaos and adversary (1)Childbirth (2)Commerce and wealth (1)Craft, metalwork and smithing (1)Creation and cosmogony (3)Dance and theatre (1)Death (1)Healing and medicine (1)Kingship and sovereignty (2)Moon (1)Mountains (2)Night and darkness (1)Primordial being (1)Purification (1)Sea and ocean (2)Spring and renewal (1)Storm and thunder (1)Sun (1)The hunt (1)The underworld (1)Tutelary of a place or community (1)Wisdom and counsel (1)GenderAllBeyond gender (1)Female (6)Gender-fluid across the tradition (1)Male (7)PantheonAllJapanese (15)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 15Amaterasu710 to 714Ame-no-Minakanushi710 to 714Ame-no-Uzume710 to 714Hoori710 to 714Inari710 to 714Izanagi710 to 714Izanami710 to 714Konohanasakuya-hime710 to 714Ninigi710 to 714Omoikane710 to 714Sukunabikona710 to 714Susanoo710 to 714Toyotama-hime710 to 714Tsukuyomi710 to 714Uke Mochi710 to 714Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Shinto: A Historytier 1Helen Hardacre, Oxford University Press, 2017ch. 1View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.