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Amenokoyane-no-Mikoto is a kami in Japanese mythology, notably featured in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki accounts of the mirror ritual used to lure Amaterasu from the heavenly cave. He is regarded as an ancestral deity of the Nakatomi and later Fujiwara clans, associated with ritual prayer and divination in the imperial court's religious practices. He is enshrined at Kasuga Taisha in Nara, where he is venerated as a guardian tied to national and ancestral traditions.
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