Answer as your truest self. The kami will recognise their own.
This test weighs your answers across 8 archetypes — Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo, Raijin, Inari, Benzaiten, Hachiman, Izanagi — and names the one that fits you best. It runs entirely in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing stored.
Which Japanese God Are You? reads how you think and matches you to one of 8 archetypes. Each one is described in full below, so whether the Oracle names you or you are simply curious about the others, the whole map is laid out in the open.
You are the light others gather around. Dignified, warm, and quietly commanding, you give without being asked — but when you're wounded, you withdraw into the dark, and the whole room feels the cold of your absence.
Like the sun goddess who hid in her cave until a mirror showed her her own radiance, your gift is also your lesson: the world dims when you retreat. You are meant to shine in the open.
Cool, proud, and self-contained, you watch where others rush. You love order and clean lines, you keep your distance, and you'd rather walk alone under the moon than be lost in a crowd.
Like the moon god who turned from his sister forever, you keep your own night sky — calm, exact, and a little unreachable. Distance is your peace, not your loneliness.
Wild, impulsive, and impossible to ignore, you crash in like a sea-storm — and yet under the rough shell beats a fiercely loyal heart. People misread the thunder for cruelty and miss the hero underneath.
Like the storm god who was cast out, then slew the great serpent and saved a life, your chaos has a purpose. Pointed right, you protect what matters most.
Pure voltage. You live for the surge — the noise, the speed, the edge most people flinch from. You fill a space the moment you enter it, and fear doesn't get much of a grip on you.
Like the thunder god drumming the storm awake, you are raw energy made flesh. The trick is aiming all that power, not just letting it roar.
Clever, adaptable, and three steps ahead, you can talk your way through any door and turn a thin hand into a winning one. You provide, you trade, you shapeshift to fit the moment.
Like the fox-kami of a thousand red gates, you thrive on wit and abundance. Your cunning isn't cold — at its best, it feeds the people you love.
Art, music, water, words — everything about you flows. You feel beauty as a physical thing, you read deeply, and people come to you for the wisdom that pours out so easily.
Like the goddess with the biwa on the water, your strength is fluid, not forceful. You move the world by moving what's inside it.
Honour, duty, loyalty — you are the one who stands between people and harm. Disciplined and steady, you'd give up almost anything before you'd give up your word.
Like the war-god who protects rather than conquers, your strength is in service. You are the wall others can lean on without ever knowing it's there.
You make things, and you feel things deeply — perhaps too deeply. You would go to the ends of the dark for love, and you carry the hardest wisdom of all: how to let go of what can't be kept.
Like the creator who descended for his lost wife and had to return without her, your story is creation born from loss. Out of your grief, new worlds begin.