1) Japanese god 2) Sea and river god 
==Name== The earliest written sources of Old Japanese diversely transcribe the sea kami 神 `god; deity; spirit` named Watatsumi. The ca. 712 CE Kojiki (tr. William George Aston 1896) writes it semantically as 海神 lit. `sea god`, and transcribes it phonetically with man`yōgana as Wata-tsu-mi 綿津見 lit. `cotton port see` in identifyi...