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ID: 901002257
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002257
Record Type: Character/Person

Ebisu (Japanese deity)

Note: Younger brother of the Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu; Japanese god of fishermen and luck.

Names:
Ebisu (Japanese deity) (preferred,English-P,D)
恵比須 (Japanese deity) (Japanese)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Ebisu (Japanese deity) (I)
Related Iconography:
relative of .... Amaterasu
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Shinto iconography, Shinto characters, Amaterasu (Shinto deity)) [901002533]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... character (person by activity)
.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Shinto
.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Ebisu (Japanese deity)
................Casanowicz, Buddhist Art in US National Museum (1921)
恵比須 (Japanese deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebisu_(mythology)

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