| abstract | - Fūjin is the Japanese wind god and is one of the eldest Shinto gods. He is portrayed as a terrifying dark demon resembling a humanoid wearinga leopard skin, carrying a large bag of winds on his shoulders. According to Kojiki, Fūjin was born from Izanami. The iconography of Fūjin seems to have it's origins with the cultural exchanges along the silk road. Starting with the Hellenistic period when Greece occupied parts of Central Asia, India and the Greek wind god Boreas became the wind god Wardo in Greco-Buddhist art, then a wind deity in China (frescoes of the Tamil Basin) and finally the Japanese wind god Fūjin. The Wind God kept his symbol, the windbag and it's dishevelled appearance throughout it's evolution.
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