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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.
This image was first published on Flickr.
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.
Takemato, T. (2012, December 11). Amaterasu. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/981/amaterasu/
Takemato, Timothy. "Amaterasu." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 11, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/981/amaterasu/.
Takemato, Timothy. "Amaterasu." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 11 Dec 2012. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
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