Izanami-no-Mikoto

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Portrait of Izanami-no-Mikoto, the Primordial Creatrix and Eternal Queen of Yomi, fully clothed in ornate ceremonial death-empress armor, standing in commanding presence at the threshold between creation and decay. Her majestic yet tragic presence radiates both divine beauty and inevitable entropy, her elaborate ceremonial armor-kimono crafted from the fabric of reality itself - living shadow-silk interwoven with ossified starlight and preserved chrysanthemum petals, completely covering her figure. Ancient kanji of creation (sei) and death (shi) flow across her full-length empress dress-armor in luminous script that shifts between divine gold and necrotic purple, spelling out the fundamental truth that all things born must return to Yomi.

Her midnight-black hair flows like the river Sanzu itself, partially preserved in elaborate traditional shimada-mage style with ornate kanzashi hairpins of bone and black pearl, while loose strands dissolve into wisps of spectral mist. She wears the Crown of Duality - a magnificent headdress combining fresh sakura blossoms (representing her role as creator) with skeletal spider lilies (higanbana) marking her as death's keeper, the flowers existing in simultaneous bloom and decay, connected by chains of tarnished silver and crystallized tears from her husband Izanagi's mourning.