(from the article `Izanagi and Izanami`) (Japanese: `He Who Invites and She Who Invites`), the central deities in the Japanese creation myth. They were the eighth pair of brother and sister ... ...as they descended into the `land of no return.` An 8th-century Japanese text, the Koji-ki, tells of the first contact wi... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/49
(Also, Izanami-no-kami.) In Shinto, the Creator of Life; with Izanagi the creator of the Japanese Islands. Izanami is said to have retired to a castle in the underworld after the creation of the world. Found on http://www.samurai-archives.com/vocab.html