In Shinto faith, Kuninotokotachi or Kuni-toko-tachi[1] is one of the two Gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil"[2] when the Earth was chaotic. In the Japanese: [[Kojiki]], he is the first of the seven generations of Divinities born after the first five divinities were born at the time of the creation of the Universe. In the Japanese: [[Nihon Shoki]], he is the first of the three divinities born after Heaven and Earth were born out of chaos, and is born from something looking like a reed-shoot growing between heaven and earth.[3] He is known by mythology to reside on top of Mount Fuji (富士山).
Kuninotokotachi is described as a hitorigami and genderless in Japanese: [[Kojiki]], but is described as a male god in Japanese: Nihon Shoki.
Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of the Yoshida Shintō sect, identified Kuninotokotachi with Amenominakanushi and regarded him as the primordial god of the Universe.
He is a Hitorigami, or a singular divinity born early in the universe.[4]
He came after Amenotokotachi and before