Who Is Hoderi (Umisachihiko) (Umisachihiko)?
The fisherman elder brother, ancestor of the Hayato
Hoderi-no-Mikoto
Hoderi (Hoderi-no-Mikoto) is a god in the Kojiki, the eldest son of Ninigi and Konohana-no-Sakuyabime, also known as Umisachihiko, "the Luck of the Sea." He was born inside the hall his mother set on fire, at the moment the flames burned most fiercely.
He lived by catching fish in the sea, but when his younger brother Hoori (Yamasachihiko) begged him to trade tools, the brother lost his fishhook. Even when his brother broke his sword and made a thousand hooks from it, Hoderi refused them and kept demanding, "Give me back my own hook." But when his brother returned from the sea palace, Hoderi was put under the sea god's curse and grew poor. When he attacked, his brother nearly drowned him using the jewels that controlled the tides, and at last he surrendered and swore to guard his brother day and night.
The Kojiki names him as the ancestor of the Ata clan of the Hayato, a people of southern Kyushu. It says this story is why the Hayato served the imperial court by acting out the motions of a drowning man.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 10
We Die Because He Chose the FlowerKonohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime
The young heavenly god Ninigi falls for Sakuya, a princess of blossoms he meets on a cape, and asks to marry her. Her father, the mountain god, sends her older sister Iwanagahime, the princess of stone, along with her. Ninigi sends the sister home because of how she looks, and from then on the lives of his descendants are as short as falling petals. After one night together Sakuya is pregnant, and Ninigi doubts the child is his. To prove she is telling the truth, she sets her own palace on fire and gives birth to three sons inside it.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 11
Not a Thousand Hooks. Only the Lost One.Umisachi and Yamasachi
Hoori loses his older brother's treasured fishhook in the sea, and even a thousand new hooks won't buy forgiveness. An old god of the tides guides him to a palace at the bottom of the ocean. After falling in love with a princess and spending three happy years there, Hoori gets the hook back. But the two jewels the sea god gives him lead the brothers into a bitter showdown.
19 pages