Bakugami
In the days of the gods, Amaterasu wandered among her worshipers. Her wanderings eventually brought her to a village on the morning of a summer festival. She joined in the villagers' celebrations, moving between the game booths and vendor stalls, feasting, drinking, and carousing until night fell.
The darkness did nothing to dampen the festivities; if anything, they increased in intensity. Lamps were lit, more food and drinks were brought out, and the main event of the night began.
The night lit up and thunder rent the air as fireworks filled the sky with color. Among the more ordinary flowers, orbs, and sparkling waterfalls were exotic animal shapes and characters.
Amaterasu watched in fascination as firework after firework were launched and burst into a dazzling array of color. Intrigued by the skill and artistry apparent in the amazing display of shape and color, the goddess slipped away to the firework launchers.
Her arrival was unmarked, for the masters and their apprentices were busy loading the mortars and lighting their blast charges. As Amaterasu watched the fireworks be loaded and launched, she saw one of the mortar shells roll away, unnoticed in the dark, when one of the apprentices clumsily caused the pile it was in to shift. Even when the fireworks display was over, and the last of the fireworks long since detonated, none came looking for the lost shell.
As the great wolf goddess inspected the abandoned firework, a familiar urge came upon her once more, and so she took the firework and a launcher that was under repair and returned to her home.
Amaterasu Restored the firework launcher with a touch of her will. Realizing that she had no blasting charge to launch the firework, she created a small Cherry Bomb at the bottom of the mortar, her power rising as she finished the last stroke. Quickly, she dropped the firework into the tube and ran off.
In a few seconds, the Cherry Bomb exploded, sending the mortar shell high into the night sky. At the apex of its trajectory, the firework burst with a thundering boom. Dazzling silver-white stars outlined the form of a great boar surrounded by four smaller white stars. Rather than fading, however, the light of the firework grew more intense, expanding to fill the outline of the boar, bright red sparking and spreading amid the white.
The white boar descended from the sky, the four white stars drifting behind it, also growing and shifting as they fell until four red-striped white piglets stood behind the boar.
The great crimson-marked boar dipped his tusked snout in greetings to Amaterasu. "Hail, Great Mother," he rumbled in greeting. "The detonation of your power has sparked the lives of I and my children."
The goddess, filled as ever with eternal love for the newest members of her family, greeted her new son and grandchildren in turn. She named the boar Bakugami, Explosion God, and granted him and his children the power that had ignited their souls, Cherry Bomb. She left the naming of Bakugami's piglets to him, as such a privilege belonged solely to their father.
Thus did Bakugami, Brush God of the Cherry Bomb, and his children, the Ko-Bakugami, come forth into the world.