In the "Nihonshoki," the second issho (addendum) in the section on the pacification of Ashihara no Nakatsukuni (the Central Land of Reed Plains) says that Takamimusubi (one of the three creator gods of Japanese mythology) designated Amenomahitotsu no Kami as the blacksmith when they enshrined the gods of Izumo.
日本書紀の葦原中国平定の段の第二の一書で、タカミムスビにより天目一箇神が出雲の神々を祀るための作金者に指名されたとの記述がある。