Konohanasakuyahime no Mikoto

木花開耶姫命

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Konohanasakuyahime no Mikoto is a Japanese kami associated with Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms, celebrated in Shinto tradition as a symbol of delicate, transient beauty. She is the daughter of the mountain deity Ōyamatsumi and is best known from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki myths concerning her marriage to Ninigi-no-Mikoto and the miraculous birth of her children amid trial by fire. In some regional and folk traditions she is venerated in contexts related to memorial rites and blossom-viewing customs, though such associations are devotional rather than doctrinally fixed.

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