Gods & Deities ยท Japan
Amaterasu
The Shinto sun goddess whose hidden light plunges the world into darkness.
Legend File
Amaterasu is central to Shinto tradition as the radiant sun goddess and ancestral figure of Japan's imperial line. In one famous story she withdraws into a cave after conflict with Susanoo, and the world loses its light until the other kami lure her out with ritual, laughter, and a mirror. Her myth turns sunlight into both cosmic order and social ceremony.
Source Framing
Japanese Shinto tradition around Amaterasu Omikami in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki: sun kami, heavenly rock-cave myth, imperial ancestress, and central deity of Ise worship.
