HOORI

[Japanese] In Japanese mythology, a son of Ninigi and his wife Ko-no-Hana and brother of Hoderi. His name means "Fire Fade". While Hoderi became a fisherman, Hoori became a hunter and eventually the ancestor of the Japanese emperors. The two brothers once quarreled over a lost fishhook and Hoori descended to the bottom of the sea to look for it. Here he met the sea-god's daughter Otohime (Toyo-Tame) and they fell in love and were married. The sea-god then summoned all his fish and sent them looking for the fishhook until one of them finally found it.