The enshrined kami of Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto. His story survives not in the chronicles but in the surviving fragments of the Yamashiro Fudoki, the provincial gazetteer.
His mother was Tamayori-hime. Playing at a shallow of the Ishikawa, she found a vermilion-lacquered arrow floating down, carried it home and set it by her bed — and conceived, and bore a son.
When the boy had grown, his grandfather gathered the gods for a feast and told him to offer sake to the one he took for his father. Still holding the cup, the boy broke up through the roof and rose into the sky.
Asked who his father was, the child answered by returning to heaven — and from this, it is said, comes the name Wake-ikazuchi, the thunder set apart. Lightning falls; this kami became lightning by rising.
The Kamo festival, now called Aoi Matsuri, held jointly by Kamigamo and Shimogamo shrines, was so great that in the Heian period 'the festival' meant this one.
The Fudoki records horses raced at this shrine's rites. The horse race is still held, and a form that entrusted the speed of lightning to a horse has survived more than a thousand years.
Thunder, and protection from misfortune. Kamigamo is the head shrine, with Kamo and Wake-ikazuchi shrines across Japan. The pair of sand cones raised in its precinct are said to represent Koyama, the mountain onto which the kami descended.
The Kamo were an old clan of Yamashiro, and this worship stood on the land before the capital was built there. The capital arrived afterwards and made the local god a guardian of the city.
A stick that points upward: tapering evenly from base to tip so that, held, its point rises of its own accord.
Where Takemikazuchi and Futsunushi are the thunder that cuts, this kami is the thunder that ascends. The Bureau divides them by direction — not a stick shaped to strike the ground, but one shaped to indicate the sky.
Note: this section is the Bureau's own reading, not a record from the chronicles.
The share of issued certificates in which this kami appeared. It shifts as more sticks are appraised. Variant spellings are reconciled before counting.
No published certificate bears this kami yet.