, also , is a Japanese Shinto goddessShinto Encyclopedia Volume One piece 264 (original 455 pages) [ Kikurihimenomomikoto]Encyclopedia of the World Goddess pages 42-43 "Kikurihime" venerated as (also known as ) at Shirayama Hime Shrine in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.Shirayama Hime Shrine history compilation committee edition "Hakusan Faith illustration" (Shirayama Hime Shrine, 2003)Emperor Keishinkai Digital Collection, National Diet Library "Kokuzai Chusha Hakusanjo Shrine" "National Famous Shrine Photographs," Imperial Keishinkai, December 1922 .Morokami Divine Festival Deity Dictionary pp. 446-447 "Shirayama Hime Shrine" She is equated with the mountain in Ishikawa province at Hakusanhime shrine.# Yama no reiryoku (Mountain spirit power) pp. 177-178 "Hakusan that Jomon people also danced to" She is mentioned in the Nihongi (Nihon Shoki), but not in the Kojiki.Tonerishin'nō-hen, edited by the National Diet Library Digital Collection "Nippon Shoki Vol. 30 (1)".Hakusan Festival Shinko Volume 9 (Original page 8) She mediated between Izanagi and Izanami after the former escaped from the land of the dead, Yomi no Kuni. She is also venerated at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and at Yōrō Shrine in Gifu Prefecture. Kikuri appears very briefly during the myth of Yomi, after Izanagi used the great god Michikaeshi Ōkami to block the entry to Yomi no kuni. Her words are praised by Izanagi,Taro Sakamoto, Saburo Ienaga, Mitsusada Inoue, Shin Ono School Note "Nihon Shoki (1)" Iwanami Shoten <Iwanami Bunko>, September 1994. . but what she said to him was not recorded (or erased),Kana Japanese Calligraphy First Volume 93 (Original page 38)Apocalypse of the gods, pages 75-77, "Genealogy of the erased Hakusan dynasty" despite Kikurihime's popularity as demonstrated by her worship at 3,000 shrines across Japan.Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Routledge, 2005).Stuart D. B. Picken, Historical Dictionary of Shinto (Scarecrow Press, 2010) p. 102. She was later merged with Kannon Bosatsu following Shinbutsu-shūgō ideas.# Mountain spirit power 180 pages
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