[3][4] Hiraoka Shrine is located in the western foothills of the Ikoma Mountains in central Osaka Prefecture.
In its earliest days, it was a center for mountain worship and the kami of Kozudake, the peak immediately behind the shrine, came to be identified with Ame-no-Koyane, the tutelary deity of the Nakatomi clan, the ancestors of the Fujiwara clan.
[6] Kasuga Daimyōjin is composed of five divine beings and each consists of a Buddhist deity and Shinto kami counterpart.
The fifth deity, Ame-no-Oshikumone, was added much later and is said to be the divine child of Ame no koyane and Himegami.
[2] The importance of the multifaceted kami was that it became a template for future worshipers who wanted to combine several deities to pray to at once.
For example, Wakasahiko Shrine in Fukui worships a male and a female kami.
For example, the himegami at Hirano Shrine might be the mother of Emperor Kanmu.