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
She violates her community's gravest taboos and has to flee the island: but she is betrayed and ends up in the Realm of the Dead, where she meets the goddess Izanami.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2013
Finding that the hag of hades, the eight Kami of thunder, and the fifteen hundred warriors have all been repulsed, Izanami herself goes in pursuit.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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