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Amaterasu

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[ah-mah-te-rah-soo] / ˈɑ mɑ tɛˈrɑ sʊ /

noun

  1. the Japanese Shinto goddess personifying the sun.


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Legend has it that the royals are descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu and can trace their lineage back thousands of years, but their divine status was renounced after World War II.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

The researchers named it the Amaterasu particle after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2023

Now it’s the turn of the upstart New York company Amaterasu Za, which produces bilingual works rooted in Japanese sources and art forms.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

The Yamato claimed to be descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond