{{Short description|Shinto spirits related to the earth}} {{Shinto}} {{italic title}} '''''Kunitsukami''''' (国つ神''','''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last1=Klautau|first1=Orion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjcWEAAAQBAJ&q=kunitsukami&pg=PA130|title=Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan|last2=Krämer|first2=Hans Martin|date=2021-03-31|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-8458-1|pages=130|language=en}}</ref> 国津神<ref>{{Cite book|last=Goto|first=Akira|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBEHEAAAQBAJ&q=kunitsukami&pg=PA28|title=Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago: Exploring the Japanese Skyscape|date=2020-11-19|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-000-22109-1|pages=28|language=en}}</ref>) are the kami of the land<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bocking|first=Brian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWGQAgAAQBAJ&q=kunitsukami+dictionary&pg=PT18|title=A Popular Dictionary of Shinto|date=2005-09-30|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-79738-6|language=en}}</ref> and live in ''tsuchi'' (earth).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Picken|first=Stuart D. B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlG3F6gSm9UC&q=earth+kami&pg=PA76|title=Historical Dictionary of Shinto|date=2010-12-28|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7372-8|pages=38|language=en}}</ref> == Mythology == {{Expand section|date=October 2021}} Many myths in the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki are about the conflict between the Kunitsukami and the Amatsukami.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ashkenazi |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqs-y9R2AekC&q=Earth+kami |title=Handbook of Japanese Mythology |date=2003 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-467-1 |pages=141 |language=en}}</ref>

== List of kunitsukami == {{Incomplete list|date=November 2021}} *Ashinazuchi<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Drott |first=Edward R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hB7HDwAAQBAJ&q=Kunitsukami&pg=PA7 |title=Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan |date=2016-04-30 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-5150-7 |pages=8 |language=en}}</ref> * Okuninushi<ref>{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=Vasudha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Snp0vXCTFqEC&q=Kunitsukami&pg=PA440|title=Eastern Religions: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-522191-6|pages=440–441|language=en}}</ref> *Ōyamatsumi<ref name=":0" /> *Sarutahiko<ref>{{Cite book|last=Picken|first=Stuart D. B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlG3F6gSm9UC&q=Sarutahiko+earth+kami&pg=PA76|title=Historical Dictionary of Shinto|date=2010-12-28|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7372-8|pages=76|language=en}}</ref> *Tenazuchi<ref name=":1" />

* Sovereign God ** Ōkuninushi * Ōkuninushi no Gokojin ** Ajisukitakahikone ** Kizumata god ** Kotoshironushi ** Shimo-shitsu-biki ** Takeminakata ** Tora-kami god ** Dokiri Vipassana ** Kamiya Taten Vipassana ** Numagawa Vipassana ** Suseri Vipassana ** Tottorijin ** Yagami Vipassana * Others ** {{Ill|Chikato no Kami|ja|千鹿頭神}} ** {{ill|Ichikishimahime|ja|イチキシマヒメ}} ** Isetsuhiko ** Kushinadahime ** Moreya ** Omizunu ** Ōmononushi ** Ōyamatsumi ** Taka Kagyu

== See also ==

* Aesir and Vanir * Heavenly and Earthly crimes * ''Jinushigami'' * ''Ujigami'' * Houtu ** City God ** ''Dizhu shen'' ** Tudigong *Okunitama

==References== {{Reflist}}{{More categories|date=November 2021}}

==External links== *{{Commonscatinline|Kunitsukami}}

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