Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto

Japanese: 伊弉諾尊･伊弉冉尊 - いざなきのみこといざなみのみこと

The name of a god that appears in Japanese mythology. In the Kojiki, they are written as Izanagi and Izanami. In the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki myths, these two gods, male and female, performed almost all of the creative activities at the command of Amatsukami, and according to the Kojiki and one of the Nihon Shoki, they eventually came into conflict at the border with Yomi-no-Kuni, and were severed from each other, with the male god as the god in charge of human life and the female god as the god of the underworld in charge of human death. The two gods appeared at the end of the Seven Generations of the Gods, which developed genealogically as follows: the budding of reeds (the origin of the land) → a wilderness full of life → the appearance of beaches and rice paddies → a divine vessel → a male and female defensive god → the idea of fulfillment.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

日本神話にあらわれる神の名。《古事記》では伊邪那岐命･伊邪那美命などと記す。この男女2神は記紀神話において，天津神（あまつかみ）の命により創造活動のほとんどすべてを行い，《古事記》，および《日本書紀》の一書によれば，最後には黄泉国（よみのくに）との境において対立し，男神は人間の生をつかさどる神として，女神は人間の死をつかさどる冥界の神として互いに絶縁する。2神は，葦の芽吹き(国土の始源)→生気に満つ原野→浜と水田の出現→神の依代（よりしろ）→男女の防塞神→充足の観念，と系譜的に展開する〈神世七代（かみよななよ）〉の最後に出現する。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

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