Kukurihime no Kami

Kukurihime no Kami (菊理媛神 or 菊理媛命), also Kukurihime no mikoto, is a Japanese Shinto goddess venerated at Shirayama Hime Shrine in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. She is mentioned in Nihongi, but not in Kojiki. She is also venerated at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and at Yōrō Shrine in Gifu Prefecture.

References

• Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Routledge, 2005).
• Stuart D. B. Picken, Historical Dictionary of Shinto (Scarecrow Press, 2010) p. 102.

External links

• Kukurihime from Encyclopedia of Shinto