According to myth, Tsukuyomi-no-mikoto, the Japanese god of night and the moon, was born from the right eye of the god Izanaki {see planet (10209)}. It is said that he made his older sister, the goddess Amaterasu {see planet (10385)}, very angry and caused the separate appearance of the sun in the day and the moon at night. (M 39655) _ _.
Discovered on 21-12-1997 in Nachi-Katsuura by Shimizu, Y., Urata, T.