Amaterasu

Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by Timothy Takemato
published on 11 December 2012
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A print by Utagawa Toyokuni III showing the sun goddess Amaterasu, the most important deity of the Japanese Shinto religion. Here she emerges from self-exile in a cave. The figure on the right is most probably the god Ame-no-tajikara-wo.

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