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Aizen Myoo: Japanese god of love. Was worshipped by prostitutes, singers, musicians, and landlords.

Ajisuke Takahikone: God of thunder.

Ama-No-Minaka-Nushi: 'Divine Lord of the Middle Heavens' and god of the Pole Star.

Ama No Uzume: Japanese fertility goddess, used for good crops.

Amaterasu: "Great Shining Heaven". Japanese sun goddess, guardian of the Japanese people and ruler of all deities. One of her tasks was to weave sacred robes for the gods.

When Amaterasu's troublesome brother Susanowo wreaked havoc on her land, she had to hide in a cave to escape the misery. He destroyed the forests, rice paddies, and the Heavenly Weaving Hall, killing Ama-Terasu's favorite weaving maiden. He sealed the cave that Amaterasu was hiding in so that no sunlight could reach the earth.

The gods worriedly met to plan a way to free her. After many failures to induce her to leave the cave, the lewd dancer Uzume stepped forth. She danced so that the gods all were delighted and laughed so much that the cave shook.

Amaterasu opened the door of the cave a bit to see what was going on, and asked why they would laugh in such a grim time. Uzume said that they were happy because a new, better, more beautiful sun goddess has come to replace her. Amaterasu immediately demanded to see this goddess, and was shown a mirror. She was startled and spellbound by her own reflection long enough for the gods to drag her from the cave, and so the world was light again and there was much rejoicing.

Amaterasu symbolizes warmth, harvest, love, fertility, goodness, wisdom, peace, light, sun, compassion.

Amatsu Mikaboshi: Japanese god of evil, darkness

Amatsu-Kami: Gods of heaven who live 'above' the earthly plain. Heavenly and eternal.

Ama-Tsu-Mara: Shinto god of smiths. He is pictured as a Cyclops.

Ame-No-Mi-Kumari: Shinto water goddess.

Ame-No-Wakahiko: God sent to rule the earth. Killed by the sky god Takami-Musubi.

Amida-Nyorai: Japanese god of the paradise realm, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death.

Am-No-Tanabata-Hime: Goddess of weavers.

Chien-shin: A kami which is related to particular geographical area

Chimata-no-kami: Japanese god of crossroads and footpaths; the positive creative force of life. A phallic deity.

Chup-Kamui: Sun goddess of the Ainu. She was originally the moon goddess

Ebisu: God of the wealth of the sea, he is the patron god of fishermen and fishing.

Ekibiogami: God of plagues and epidemics.

Emma-o: Japanese Buddhist god of the underworld. Depicted wearing a judge's cap and holding a mace. He judged the souls of the males. If the sinner was "saved" through prayer, they would be allowed to pass on to paradise or be reincarnated on earth. Symbolizes destruction, death, and revenge.

Gama: God of longevity.

Gekka-o: God of marriage. He binds the feet of lovers with a red silken cord.

Ichimokuren: Japanese one-eyed god invoked to produce rain during droughts.

Ida-Ten: Japanese guardian of the law. Symbolizes legal victory, justice.

Ika-Zuchi-no-Kami: Group of even Shinto demons who reside in the Underworld.

Iki-Ryo: The spirit of anger and envy which harms.

Inari: Japanese god of rice, business, merchants, prosperity. Could also be a goddess, and shapeshifted into a fox when in the female form. As a god, foxes were his messenger.

Ishikori-Dome: Japanese smith goddess, created the first mirror which is said to be 8-sided and hidden. No one can see it, but many temples have a facsimile of it held important to them.

Isora: God of the seashore.

Izanagi: Japanese creator god, father god, man of men. Symbolizes magic.

Izanami: Japanese mother goddess, the female counterpart to Izanagi.

Kagutsuchi: Japanese god of fire.

Kamado-gami: Gods of the hearth.

Kami-kaze: God of wind, storms and viscous cold weather.

Kaminari: Goddess of thunder, the Thunder Queen and the Heavenly Noise.

Kanayama-hiko: God of metals.

Kanayama-hime: Goddess of metals.

Kawa-no-Kami: God of rivers. Although rivers had their own god, ruler of all rivers.

Kaya Nu Hima: Japanese herb goddess.

Kenro-Ji-Jin: God of earth.

Kishi-Bojin: Goddess of children and childbirth

Kishijoten: Goddess of luck and beauty

Kishimo-jin: Japanese goddess who protected children. Universal mother. She symbolizes compassion, children, life, fertility, and balance.

Kojin: Ancient tree deity and goddess of the kitchen. She lives in an enoki tree.

Kono-hana-sakuya-hime: Japanese goddess of the cherry tree, makes the flowers bloom.

Koshin: God of the roads.

Koya-no-Myoin: God of the sacred Mount Koya

Kukunochi-no-Kami: Shinto god of the trees.

Kuni-Toko-tachi: Earth deity who lives in Mt. Fuji.

Kura-Okami: God of rain and snow.

Nai-no-Kami: God of earthquakes.

Naka-Yama-Tsu-Mi: God of mountain slopes.

Naru Kami:
Japanese goddess of thunder, ruler of trees and the forest, patron of artisans.

Nikko-Bosatsu: Buddhist god of sunshine and good health.

Ninigi-no-mikoto: Rice god and ancestral god of the Japanese imperial family.

Nitten: Japanese Buddhist sun goddess. Based on the Hindu god Surya.

Nominosukune: God of wrestling.

No-no-kami: Japanese god of fields and plants.