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Izanagi: Japanese Creation God in Shinto Mythology

Izanagi is a central deity in Japanese mythology, remembered with Izanami as a primeval couple whose actions helped shape the islands, the kami, and the ritual ideas at the heart of Shinto. His stories, preserved in the *Kojiki* and *Nihon Shoki*, also reveal how creation, purification, and the boundary between life and death are understood in early Japanese tradition.