Luring the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Out of a Cave; Death of the Historical Buddha (Nehan-zu) [2015.300.210a, b] This item is openly available as part of an Open Artstor ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic phenomenon: an extremely high-energy particle, dubbed the Amaterasu particle, ...

Those familiar with Japanese mythology will recognize the ... and from the left eye came the sun goddess Amaterasu and from the right, the moon god Tsukuyomi. I’m not sure how it works, but ...

According to the Kojiki, the ancient written record of Japanese history and legend, the Yata no Kagami was made by the deity Ishikoridome. After the sun goddess Amaterasu fought with her brother ...

The Ama-no-Iwato (Heavenly Cave) appears in Japanese myth as the place where the sun goddess Amaterasu takes refuge from the wild antics of her younger brother, the unruly Susanoo. The absence of ...

I eavesdropped on a tour guide with salt-and-pepper hair explaining that more than 2,000 years ago, Amaterasu-Omikami, the Sun Goddess ... thank-you spirit of the Japanese, at Shiogama, a sacred ...

According to Japanese chronicles, his great-great-grandmother was the sun goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami. However, there’s some debate as to whether or not Jimmu actually ever existed. At the end of ...

In the Kannamesai festival, the year’s new rice harvest is offered to Amaterasu, the sun goddess, to pray for a rich harvest and the continued health of the imperial family and the Japanese nation.