Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi

Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi are a pair of Japanese deities.^[1] They are the parents of Kushinadahime, the wife of Susanoo-no-Mikoto.^[2] The serpent killed their other 7 daughters.^[3][4]

Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi
Shrine dedicated to the two of them located on the premises of Tsuno Shrine[citation needed][verification needed]
Genealogy
Parents	Ōyamatsumi (father)
Children	Kushinadahime

Their names mean foot stroking elder and hand stroking elder respectively.^[5][6][7] They are considered Kunitsukami.^[5][4] They are the only two deities of the Kojiki explicitly stated as elders.^[8]

Ashinazuchi brought alcohol to Susanoo in order to kill Yamata no Orochi^[9][4] alongside Tensazuchi.^[4] Susanoo got the serpent drunk with the alcohol and killed it for them.^[10]

In the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, the god Susanoo, after his banishment from the heavenly realm Takamagahara, came down to earth, to the land of Izumo, where he encountered an elderly couple named Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi, both children of the mountain god Ōyamatsumi. They told him of a monstrous creature from the nearby land of Koshi known as the Yamata no Orochi ("eight-forked serpent") that had devoured seven of their eight daughters. Upon hearing this, Susanoo agreed to kill the serpent on condition that they give him their sole surviving daughter, Kushinadahime, to be his wife.^[11][12] After he was successful they became grandparents of Yashimajinumi.^[13] They were granted the title of Inada palace master.^[14][15]

They are enshrined in Hikawa Shrine, Saitama representing love as a married couple alongside Kushinadahime and Susanoo.^[16]

Family tree

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Ōyamatsumi[17][18][19]

Susanoo[20][21][22]: 277

Kamuo Ichihime[18][19][23][24]

Konohanachiru-hime[25][22]: 277

Ashinazuchi[26][27]

Tenazuchi[27]

Toshigami[24][23]

Ukanomitama[18][19] (Inari)[28]

Oyamakui[29]

Kushinadahime[27][30][22]: 277

Yashimajinumi[25][22]: 277

Kagutsuchi[31]

Kuraokami[32]

Hikawahime [ja][33][22]: 278

Fuha-no-Mojikunusunu [ja][22]: 278

Fukabuchi-no-Mizuyarehana [ja][22]: 278

Ame-no-Tsudoechine [ja][22]: 278

Funozuno [ja][22]: 278

Sashikuni Okami [ja][22]: 278

Omizunu[22]: 278

Futemimi [ja][22]: 278

Sashikuni Wakahime [ja][22]: 278

Ame-no-Fuyukinu[34][35][22]: 278

Takamimusubi[36][37]

Futodama[36][37]

Nunakawahime[38]

Ōkuninushi[39][22]: 278  (Ōnamuchi)[40]

Kamotaketsunumi no Mikoto[41]

Kotoshironushi[42][43]

Tamakushi-hime[41]

Takeminakata[44][45]

Susa Clan[46]

JAPANESE EMPERORS

711–585 BC Jimmu[47] 660–585 BC(1)

Himetataraisuzu-hime[47]

Kamo no Okimi[42][48]

Mirahime [ja]

632–549 BC Suizei[49][50][51] 581–549 BC(2)

Isuzuyori-hime[48][52]

Hikoyai[49][50][51]

Kamuyaimimi[49][50][51] d.577 BC

Miwa clan and Kamo clan

Nunasokonakatsu-hime[53][42]

Imperial House of Japan

Ō clan[54][55] and Aso clan[56]

• Pink is female.
• Blue is male.
• Grey means other or unknown.
• Clans, families, people groups are in green.