IncenseSakeRiceSaltA cloth tied to a branchA meal eaten outdoors
Invocation Approach
Tone
Light quick indifferent
Address
FujinFutenGod of the WindKaze no Kami
Relationship
The weather that does not know your name
Warning
He moves things and does not steer them
Resonance
Travellers sailors those who need a thing to change those who live by the weather
Symbols
Wind bagThe cloudThe demon faceThe green robeThe gate pair
Mythology Summary
Fujin is the wind god of the Japanese pantheon, shown as a green or blue demon carrying a great bag of winds on his shoulders, and paired with Raijin at temple gates and in the Wind and Thunder Gods screen attributed to Tawaraya Sotatsu at Kennin-ji in Kyoto. The pairing and the bag come from the Chinese wind master Fengbo, but wind has its own Shinto kami, and the Kojiki's Shinatsuhiko is the wind itself rather than its ruler. He is honoured where the wind matters — at harbours, before a voyage, and by farmers at harvest — and he has no large independent cult.
Modern Practice
The practice is small and weather-shaped: a cloth tied to a branch, sake and rice at the harbour before a crossing, a meal eaten outdoors in the season when the wind is kind. He is asked for passage rather than for control of the weather.