The Wind God and the Thunder God are treated as a pair as the Gods of Water, Fire, Thunder and Lightning, which are among the Twenty-Eight Deities that accompany the Thousand-Armed Kannon, but at Sanjusangendo they are lined up separately, as in the Wind God and Thunder God painting by Tawaraya Sotatsu.

The natural phenomena of wind and thunder are deified in particular, with the Wind God depicted as a demon carrying a wind bag on its back and the Thunder God depicted as a demon beating a small drum that is ringed in a circle, in the hope of warding off disasters caused by natural phenomena.

The Thunder God is an ancient Japanese god and became the deity of Kamo Shrine, and later was traditionally manifested in the faith of the spirits and the faith of the gods.