Izanagi

[ ee-zah-nah-gee ]

noun

1. the Japanese god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan by a union with his sister Izanami.

Example Sentences

The plate reconstruction showed a hiccup between what is now South China and Borneo — an ocean once thought to be underpinned by another ancient plate called the Izanagi plate actually wasn't on that plate.

From Scientific American

The new dinosaur's name comes from Yamato, the ancient name for Japan, and Izanagi, a Japanese mythological god who supposedly created the Japanese islands including Awaji Island, where the Yamatosaurus was discovered.

From Salon

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity.

From Literature

“We asked the gods who made Japan, Izanagi and Izanami, to come down and listen to us,” he said.

From The New Yorker

And to the youngest of the deities, his Augustness the Lord Izanagi gave the Sea Plain.

From Project Gutenberg