Ame-no-Uzume
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Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto is the goddess of humor, dancing happiness, joy, dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. She
Ame-no-Uzume depicted in a 19th century print
Uzume dancing to lure out Amaterasu.
Tablet at the Ama-no-Uzume shrine in Takachiho
Saruta hiko and Uzume illustration by William Aston
Amaterasu
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Amaterasu Ōmikami, often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Amateru Kami and Ōhirume no Muchi, is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity of the Shinto pa
Ame-no-Uzume
…revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. She famously helped draw out the missing sun deity, Amaterasu Omikami, when she had hidden herself in a cave. Her name can also be pronounced as Ama-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto. She is also known as Ōmiyanome-no-Ōkami, an inari…
Amaterasu emerging from the cave, Ama-no-Iwato, to which she once retreated (detail of woodblock print by Kunisada)
Izanagi purifying himself (misogi) by immersing in the Tachibana River (Natori Shunsen)
Installation of the Sun Goddess (Amaterasu)
Susanoo throwing the heavenly horse into Amaterasu's loom