Ishikori-dome no Mikoto

Ishikori-dome no Mikoto^[1][2] (石凝姥命; also 伊斯許理度売命^[3]) is a kami of mirrors in Shinto. She was regarded as an ancestral deity of Kagami zukuri no muraji (The mirror-making clans). In Japanese mythology, she created the exquisite Yata-no-kagami mirror which lures the sun goddess Amaterasu out of her cave and returns light to the world.^[4] Due to this achievement, Ishikori-dome is worshipped by makers of mirrors and stonecutters. She is worshiped as the god of casting and metalworking. She is enshrined in the Fuigo-jinja (Tennoji Ward, Osaka City), the Nakayama-jinja (Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture) the Kagamitsukurinimasu amaterumitama-jinja (Shiki-gun, Nara Prefecture), Iwayama-jinja (Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture). ^[5]