Ame-no-Koyane

Ama-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami, a male deity of the Japanese religion of Shinto. He is one of the deities of Kasuga Shrine, Nara, Japan.

He is considered to be an ancestor of the Fujiwara clan.

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