Who Is Hoori (Yamasachihiko) (Yamasachihiko)?
The younger brother who visited the sea god's palace
Hoori-no-Mikoto
Hoori (Hoori-no-Mikoto) is a god in the Kojiki, the son of Ninigi and Konohana-no-Sakuyabime, also known as Yamasachihiko, "the Luck of the Mountains." He was the youngest of the three brothers born in the flames, and his other name is Hikohohodemi-no-Mikoto.
He hunted animals in the mountains, but he traded tools with his older brother Hoderi (Umisachihiko), went fishing, and lost his brother's fishhook. No matter how many replacement hooks he made, his brother would not forgive him. As he cried by the shore, the god Shiotsuchi told him to go to the palace of the sea god. There he married Toyotamabime, and three years later the sea god used his power to find the hook in the throat of a sea bream. Back on land, he brought his brother under control with a curse taught to him by the sea god and two jewels that made the tide rise and fall. Later, although his wife asked him not to look while she gave birth, he peeked, and she returned to the sea.
Hoori is the grandfather of Emperor Jimmu.
Episodes featuring this character3
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
NEWEpisode 12
The Emperor's Grandma Was a Sea PrincessToyotama-hime and the Birthing Hut
Toyotamabime enters the birthing hut with one plea: "Please don't look." But Hoori is so worried that he peeks, and inside he sees a huge lord of the sea, part shark and part dragon. He runs, then turns back. By then his wife has left their child behind and closed the road to the sea. Neither of them can let go of the other, and only their songs still cross the line between sea and shore.
19 pages