akitsumikami (現御神) was used instead of the more common word arahitogami (現人神, "living god") Ara means "exist" or "appear", hito means "person" and kami...

conquest". In State Shinto, the emperor was believed to be an arahitogami (現人神) (manifest kami or incarnation of a deity). Following Japan's surrender,...

Arahitogami (現人神) is a Japanese word meaning a kami (or deity) who is a human being. It first appears in the Nihon Shoki (c. 720) as a words of Yamato...

 110. Tsushima 1991, p. 343. Dorman 2012, p. 67. Dorman 2012, p. 68. "自ら現人神を名乗り、横綱・双葉山を手玉に取った新興宗教「女性教祖」たち". Shukan Shincho (in Japanese). 3 January 2022...

the status of emperor was further elevated to be a living god (Japanese: 現人神, romanized: Arahito gami). This ceased at the end of World War II, when the...