| LC control no. | no2019142571 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ebisu (Japanese deity) |
| Variant(s) | 恵比須 (Japanese deity) 恵比寿 (Japanese deity) 夷 (Japanese deity) 戎 (Japanese deity) Webisu (Japanese deity) ゑびす (Japanese deity) Hiruko (Japanese deity) 蛭子 (Japanese deity) Kotoshiro-nushi no Kami (Japanese deity) Kotoshironushi no Kami (Japanese deity) 事代主神 (Japanese deity) Hiru-ko (Japanese deity) Koto-shiro-nushi (Japanese deity) Ebisu (Shinto deity) |
| Associated country | Japan |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Ebisu shinkō, 2007. Warau Ebisu, 2007. Ebisu shinkō jiten, 1999. Dowling, Judith. Favorite sons : folk images of Daidodu and Ebisu from the Jeffrey Montgomery Collection, 1998. Wikipedia, September 26, 2019: Ebisu (mythology) (Ebisu (恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎), also transliterated Webisu (ゑびす) or called Hiruko (蛭子) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (事代主神), is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck. He is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune (七福神 = Shichifukujin), and the only one of the seven to originate purely from Japan without any Hindu influence) Encyclopædia Britannica online, September 26, 2019 (Ebisu, in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin ("Seven Gods of Luck"), the patron of fishermen and tradesmen. He is depicted as a fat, bearded, smiling fisherman often carrying a rod in one hand and a tai (sea bream--i.e., a red snapper--symbolic of good luck) in the other. He is a popular Shintō deity, and his image is frequently seen in shops and places of commerce. In some Shintō shrines Ebisu is identified with Hiru-ko (usually translated "Leech Child"), the misconceived firstborn son of the creator couple Izanami and Izanagi, who considered him inadequate and set him adrift in a reed boat. Ebisu is also sometimes associated with Koto-shiro-nushi ("Sign-Master"), a son of the mythological hero Ōkuninushi and associated with happiness because of the role he once played as a pacifier in a conflict between earthly and heavenly deities) Wiren, Alan. Ebisu and Daikoku, via Japan visitor website, viewed September 26, 2019 (Ebisu and Daikoku; gods of bounty, providers and protectors of the food stores, and the patron deities of merchants; one reason why Ebisu is so popular may be because he is purely Japanese. He appears very early on in the Japanese creation story, the Kojiki, at the beginning of which two gods are charged with the task of begetting the world; These two gods descend from the heavens and set to their task in earnest -- only to discover that they have gone about it wrongly. When their first offspring arrives, he is a child without bones (and without arms or legs, in some versions of the story). They call him Hiruko - "Leech Child". Even after Hiruko reaches the age of two, he is still unable to stand up, and his parents, admitting failure, put him into a boat of reeds and "let him float away"; Ebisu, as an adult, is a beaming, roly-poly character, protector of those who fish and of those who trade. He often carries a fishing rod, or has a big fish tucked under his arm) <https://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-culture/ebisu-daikoku> |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 91002381 |
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