Koto-shiro-nushi

Japanese mythology

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association with Ebisu

  • Ebisu, detail of a painting by Hokurei, 1851; in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna
    In Ebisu

    …is also sometimes associated with Koto-shiro-nushi (“Sign-Master”), a son of the mythological hero Ōkuninushi and associated with happiness because of the role he once played as a pacifier in a conflict between earthly and heavenly deities. See also Shichi-fuku-jin.

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