Origins

KAMIYO Episode 36 – Izanagi fleeing up Yomotsu-Hirasaka pursued by Yomotsu-Shikome and Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi, throwing sacred peaches to repel the army of death, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 36: The Desperate Flight at Yomo...

Prologue: The Approaching Footsteps of Death "Haa... Haa...!!" The Yomi-no-Kuni (The Underworld) wrapped in absolute darkness. Only Izanagi's heavy breathing and the fierce sound of his footsteps kicking the cold...

KAMIYO Episode 36: The Desperate Flight at Yomo...

Prologue: The Approaching Footsteps of Death "Haa... Haa...!!" The Yomi-no-Kuni (The Underworld) wrapped in absolute darkness. Only Izanagi's heavy breathing and the fierce sound of his footsteps kicking the cold...

KAMIYO Episode 35 – Izanagi recoiling in horror at Izanami’s decaying form possessed by the eight Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi thunder gods in Yomi-no-Kuni, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 35: The Revealed Corruption and ...

Prologue: The Opened Door of Taboo and the Creeping Scent of Death "Izanami... I am coming now." The small flame Izanagi lit upon the broken bamboo comb (takegushi). Relying on...

KAMIYO Episode 35: The Revealed Corruption and ...

Prologue: The Opened Door of Taboo and the Creeping Scent of Death "Izanami... I am coming now." The small flame Izanagi lit upon the broken bamboo comb (takegushi). Relying on...

KAMIYO Episode 34 – Izanagi breaking a bamboo comb to light a flame and opening the forbidden stone door in Yomi-no-Kuni, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 34: The Law of Yomi and the Brok...

Prologue: The Closed Stone Door and the Irrevocable Reality Absolute darkness where neither light, nor sound, nor even wind exists. In the ears of Izanagi, who stood motionless before the...

KAMIYO Episode 34: The Law of Yomi and the Brok...

Prologue: The Closed Stone Door and the Irrevocable Reality Absolute darkness where neither light, nor sound, nor even wind exists. In the ears of Izanagi, who stood motionless before the...

KAMIYO Episode 33 – Izanagi descending alone into the darkness of Yomi-no-Kuni, standing before the stone gates of the palace of the dead, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 33: The Taboo of the Living, to ...

Prologue: The Blood-Stained Sword and the Faded World The gruesome scene where the head of Hinokagutsuchi-no-Kami was severed, and from his blood, fierce warrior gods and mountain gods uttered their...

KAMIYO Episode 33: The Taboo of the Living, to ...

Prologue: The Blood-Stained Sword and the Faded World The gruesome scene where the head of Hinokagutsuchi-no-Kami was severed, and from his blood, fierce warrior gods and mountain gods uttered their...

KAMIYO Episode 32 – Izanagi wielding the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi to slay Hinokagutsuchi, blood-stained birth of warrior gods, descent into Yomi-no-Kuni, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 32: The Wailing Totsuka-no-Tsuru...

Prologue: Creation at the End of Agony, the Tenacity of the Mother Goddess By the blazing flames of Hinokagutsuchi-no-Kami, the divine body of Izanami, the mother of life, was mercilessly...

KAMIYO Episode 32: The Wailing Totsuka-no-Tsuru...

Prologue: Creation at the End of Agony, the Tenacity of the Mother Goddess By the blazing flames of Hinokagutsuchi-no-Kami, the divine body of Izanami, the mother of life, was mercilessly...

KAMIYO Episode 31 – Hinokagutsuchi-no-Kami, god of fire, born as a pillar of flame from Izanami’s womb, scorching paradise, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 31: The Birth of Hinokagutsuchi-...

Prologue: The Gears of Paradise Going Awry Oyashimakuni (The Great Eight Islands), where the seas had filled, mountains towered, and lush forests and fields covered the earth. In the center...

KAMIYO Episode 31: The Birth of Hinokagutsuchi-...

Prologue: The Gears of Paradise Going Awry Oyashimakuni (The Great Eight Islands), where the seas had filled, mountains towered, and lush forests and fields covered the earth. In the center...