Wikipedia's article on Watatsumi is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for a general overview of the sea deity's place in Japanese mythology, and less reliable for evaluating regional or sectarian variation in how the figure is understood. Use it for basic identification; a claim needing deeper scholarly grounding needs a dedicated study.
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Reliability TierWikipedia's article on Watatsumi, the Japanese sea deity, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview rather than a substitute for a dedicated study of Japanese sea deity traditions. NotesCrowd-sourced tertiary reference. Used here only for the specific, checkable facts that the Nihon Shoki names three separate Watatsumi deities born at Izanagi's purification alongside the Sumiyoshi triad, and that Shikaumi Jinja on Shika Island is the head shrine of the Watatsumi shrine network and the ancestral shrine of the Azumi clan, who trace descent from Watatsumi through his son Utsushihikanasaku. 1 Citation
Publication Year URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watatsumi 1 Sources
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