Kamis, in the Japanese theology, denote deified souls of ancient heroes, who are supposed still to interest themselves in the welfare of the people whom they ancienly commanded.

The camis answer to the heroes in the ancient Greek and Roman theology, and are venerated like the saints in the modern Roman church.

Besides the heroes or camis beatified by the consent of antiquity, the mikaddos, or pontiffs, have deified many others, and continue still to grant the apotheosis to new worthies; so that they swarm with camis: the principal one is Tensio Dai Sin, the common father of Japan, to whom are paid devotions and pilgrimages extraordinary.