Okunitama-no-okami is a Shinto deity understood as a tutelary spirit of the land, often venerated as the guardian kami of a particular province or territory in Japan. The name, meaning roughly "great spirit of the land," reflects an association with the earth and locality itself, and such deities are commonly enshrined at Sōja or provincial shrines historically established to unify worship of local kami. Okunitama-no-okami is also linked to purification and exorcism rites, though the specific benefits attributed to such practices are matters of tradition and belief rather than established fact.