Izanami
Americannoun
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This showing of ceramic vessels and masks inspired by Izanami, the Shinto goddess of creation and death, marks O’Leary’s solo museum debut.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023
Guests who are only eating outdoors at the hotel’s Izanami restaurant, however, don’t have to show vaccination status.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2021
“We asked the gods who made Japan, Izanagi and Izanami, to come down and listen to us,” he said.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2016
They were told that it was because Izanami, the female, should not have been the one to speak first when they met at the pillar.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013
In all this he succeeds, and having married Princess Yakami, to whom he was previously engaged,** he resumes the work left unfinished by Izanagi and Izanami, the work of "making the land."
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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