犬神

Japanese

Kanji in this term
犬	神
いぬ Grade: 1	かみ > がみ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
犬神 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いぬがみ [ìnúgámí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [inɯ̟ᵝɡa̠mʲi]

Noun

犬(いぬ)神(がみ) • (inugami)

A (guardian) dog spirit; an attendant/familiar spirit: In Japanese mythology an inugami (lit. a "dog spirit") is a type of shikigami (式神), similar to a familiar spirit, resembling, and usually originating from, a dog, and most commonly carrying out vengeance or acting as guardians on behalf of their 'owner'.

Noun

Kanji in this term
犬	神
いぬ Grade: 1	かみ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
犬神 (kyūjitai)

犬(いぬ)神(かみ) • (inukami)

(rare) A dog god

See also

犬神 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
Inugami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
式神(しきかみ) (shikikami): a kind of familiar spirit, summoned-up in service as a servant to the will of a practitioner of onmyōdō; very much like a western familiar.

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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