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Tsukuyomi is the Japanese kami of the moon and brother to Amaterasu (the sun kami and ruler of heaven) and Susanoo (usually seen as a god of storms and the sea, but actually more of a kami of life and death).
He is created, when his father Izanagi bathes in a pond to purify himself from his failed trip to the underworld. When Izanagi washes his left eye, Amaterasu comes into being, followed by Tsukuyomi, who comes from the right eye and Susanoo, who is created, when Izanagi washes his nose.
Izanagi is thrilled by his three new kids and decides that they shall become top dogs in heaven. So Amaterasu receives her father's jade necklace, as a token of power and becomes the empress of Takamagahara, the home of the heavenly kami.
Tsukuyomi is given the task to rule the realm of the night.
Susanoo gets to rule the sea, which he isn't pleased with, but I'll explain that another time.
Anyway, Tsukuyomi gets along with his sister Amaterasu just fine, until one day she gets an invitation from the kami of nurturing, Ukemochi. Amaterasu is busy ruling heaven and can't attend her friend's dinner party (I'll just assume that they're friends here). So she asks Tsukuyomi to represent her and he agrees. He descends from heaven to Earth and meets up with Ukemochi, whom he informs that his sister sent him, because she couldn't come herself. Ukemochi doesn't mind and asks him to take seat, while she prepares dinner for him. Unfortunately, she does that right in front of him, so he gets to witness, where she gets all the food from: herself. She spits it out (hey, she's literally the embodiment of nurture - where did you think it would come from?). In the end, she has cooked a meal that looks perfectly fine and no one who didn't see it would think that it has been spat out. Buuut, Tsukuyomi isn't impressed. In fact, he is so disgusted by what he just has seen that he straight up kills poor Ukemochi with his sword. Then he rushes home, straight to Amaterasu and in outrage tells her what happened. When she hears this Amaterasu gets even more outraged and is like: "Brother, how could you do such a terrible thing?! You jerk! I never want to see you again!"
And that's why day and night are separated from each other.
As for Ukemochi's corpse, Amaterasu sends one of her servants to retrieve it and he comes to find that her body has turned into a horse, a cow, several kinds of edible plants and silkworm cocoons. So the servant collects them all and brings them to Amaterasu. She is delighted and decides that all these things shall be food for the humans in the middle world. The end.

I suddenly had a whim to draw a Kami, so I just began to draw spontaneously and out came Tsukuyomi. Now I just had to draw the moon. I kinda like how the moon turned out. ^^
Also, note that the word "Kami" doesn't really translate to "god/goddess" as much as to "spirit". Everything in nature has a kami.

Description
Tsukuyomi is the Japanese kami of the moon and brother to Amaterasu (the sun kami and ruler of heaven) and Susanoo (usually seen as a god of storms and the sea, but actually more of a kami of life and death).
He is created, when his father Izanagi bathes in a pond to purify himself from his failed trip to the underworld. When Izanagi washes his left eye, Amaterasu comes into being, followed by Tsukuyomi, who comes from the right eye and Susanoo, who is created, when Izanagi washes his nose.
Izanagi is thrilled by his three new kids and decides that they shall become top dogs in heaven. So Amaterasu receives her father's jade necklace, as a token of power and becomes the empress of Takamagahara, the home of the heavenly kami.
Tsukuyomi is given the task to rule the realm of the night.
Susanoo gets to rule the sea, which he isn't pleased with, but I'll explain that another time.
Anyway, Tsukuyomi gets along with his sister Amaterasu just fine, until one day she gets an invitation from the kami of nurturing, Ukemochi. Amaterasu is busy ruling heaven and can't attend her friend's dinner party (I'll just assume that they're friends here). So she asks Tsukuyomi to represent her and he agrees. He descends from heaven to Earth and meets up with Ukemochi, whom he informs that his sister sent him, because she couldn't come herself. Ukemochi doesn't mind and asks him to take seat, while she prepares dinner for him. Unfortunately, she does that right in front of him, so he gets to witness, where she gets all the food from: herself. She spits it out (hey, she's literally the embodiment of nurture - where did you think it would come from?). In the end, she has cooked a meal that looks perfectly fine and no one who didn't see it would think that it has been spat out. Buuut, Tsukuyomi isn't impressed. In fact, he is so disgusted by what he just has seen that he straight up kills poor Ukemochi with his sword. Then he rushes home, straight to Amaterasu and in outrage tells her what happened. When she hears this Amaterasu gets even more outraged and is like: "Brother, how could you do such a terrible thing?! You jerk! I never want to see you again!"
And that's why day and night are separated from each other.
As for Ukemochi's corpse, Amaterasu sends one of her servants to retrieve it and he comes to find that her body has turned into a horse, a cow, several kinds of edible plants and silkworm cocoons. So the servant collects them all and brings them to Amaterasu. She is delighted and decides that all these things shall be food for the humans in the middle world. The end.

I suddenly had a whim to draw a Kami, so I just began to draw spontaneously and out came Tsukuyomi. Now I just had to draw the moon. I kinda like how the moon turned out. ^^
Also, note that the word "Kami" doesn't really translate to "god/goddess" as much as to "spirit". Everything in nature has a kami.