Illustration
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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Original image by Timothy Takemato. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 11 December 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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Takemato, T. (2012, December 11). Amaterasu. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/981/
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Takemato, Timothy. "Amaterasu." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 11, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/981/.
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Takemato, Timothy. "Amaterasu." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 11 Dec 2012. Web. 21 Oct 2020.
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