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Ido-no-Kami (
Appearance[]
In the manga, Ido-no-Kami is a humanoid god with a flat, squarish head, a prominent brow ridge, sunken eyes with large pupils, a big nose, wide lips, and a wisp-like body with no discernable lower half. He wears a long-sleeve robe and has leaves around his body.
Personality[]
History[]
Shinigami Tai-Senki[]
He assembled along with many other Japanese Yōkai to fight against evil Western Yōkai.
Shinpen GeGeGe no Kitarō[]
Either Imori or himself was respected in Yama-Taikoku.
Saishinban GeGeGe no Kitarō[]
Idogami witnessed a group of Nobusuma, that were under the control of Sakabashira, controlling humans. To let Kitarō and others know, Idogami sent several Nekiri-Mushi as messengers. Later, Kitarō and others tried to summon the worms to defeat Sakabashira, and while dealing with the copies of Sakabashira, the worms bit off the roots of Sakabashira which is the true form of Sakabashira, making it flee and entrapped Kitarō and others, and Sakabashira was defeated along with its copies.
Powers and Abilities[]
Legend[]
The Ido-no-Kami is a deity that protects wells. Its face is said to resemble a catfish and during New Year's, a shimenawa rope would be hung over a well to pay tribute to him.
It's also known as the Kawa-no-Kami due to its connection to river water, and if it's ever provoked, it causes the water to become tainted and spread disease. For this reason, an altar would be built and a paper or board with the word “Mizugami” written on it was placed to pay respect to Ido-no-Kami.
Ido-no-Kami doesn't like it when people look into wells without meaning to. In some places, people clapped their hands to show respect when drawing water and then poured salt into the well as an offering. Once, when a beautiful servant raised a bucket to draw water from a well, the Ido-no-Kami grabbed on and came up. He fell in love with the servant, so he dragged her into the well.