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JAPANESE DEITY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A deity worshipped by the Japaneseplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Japanese deity" is a kind of...):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

Instance hyponyms:

Amaterasu; Amaterasu Omikami (central deity of Shinto; goddess personifying the sun and ancestress of the rulers of Japan)

Hachiman (a Shinto god of war)

Hotei (one of the 7 gods of happiness)

Izanagi (the god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami)

Izanami (sister and consort of Izanami; mother of the islands and gods of Japan)

Kami (one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature))

Kwannon (Japanese counterpart of Chinese Kuan Yin)

Ninigi; Ninigino-Mikoto (grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan)

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