Origins

KAMIYO Episode 37 – Izanagi pushing the Chibiki-no-Iwa boulder to seal Yomotsu-Hirasaka, the eternal parting of life and death between Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 37: The Boulder of Chibiki — The...

[Prologue]: The Approaching Fundamental Despair Izanagi, having repelled the army of Yomi and the Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi (Eight Thunder Gods) through the sacred power of the peaches (Ookamuzumi-no-Mikoto), sat at the exit...

KAMIYO Episode 37: The Boulder of Chibiki — The...

[Prologue]: The Approaching Fundamental Despair Izanagi, having repelled the army of Yomi and the Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi (Eight Thunder Gods) through the sacred power of the peaches (Ookamuzumi-no-Mikoto), sat at the exit...

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...