Ōkuninushi
DIVINITY (KAMI) IN JAPANESE SHINTO
Okuninushi; Okuninushi No Mikoto; O-Kuni-Nushi; Ookuninushi; Okuni-Nushi; Ōanamuchi; Ōanamuji; Ōnamuji-no-Kami; 大穴牟遅神
Ōkuninushi (historical orthography: Ohokuninushi), also known as Ō(a)namuchi (Oho(a)namuchi) or Ō(a)namochi (Oho(a)namochi) among other variants, is a kami in Japanese mythology. He is one of the central deities in the cycle of myths recorded in the Kojiki (ca.