Kunitokotachi

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In Japanese mythology, Kunitokotachi (国之常立神 in Kojiki, 国常立尊 in Nihonshoki; Kunitokotachi-no-Kami or Kuninotokotachi-no-Kami?) is one of the two gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" [1] when the earth was chaotic.

Kunitokotachi is described as a hitorigami and genderless in Kojiki while as a male god in Nihonshoki.

Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of the Yoshida Shintō sect, identified Kunitokotachi with Amenominakanushi and regarded him as the primordial god of the Universe.


  1. ^ Masaki Tsugita, Kojiki, 1977, ISBN 4061582070
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