Deity Chijin Godai
Amaterasu
天照大神 zh 아마테라스 ko
Sun goddess in Shinto
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Amaterasu
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 15
Kinship in an account 15
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Izanagi deity of Shinto religion - child of (child) Izanami goddess of Shinto religion
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parent of (mother) Amatsuhikone Figure in Japanese mythology -
parent of (mother) Ame no Hohi Japanese kami -
parent of (mother) Ame no Oshihomimi kami -
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parent of (mother) Ichikishimahime water deity -
parent of (mother) Ikutsuhikone Japanese deity -
parent of (mother) Kumanokusubi God in Japanese mythology -
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parent of (mother) Tagitsuhime -
parent of (mother) Takiribime Japanese deity -
partner of (spouse) Susanoo Shinto deity - sibling of Hiruko Japanese god
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sibling of Kagutsuchi God of Fire - sibling of Susanoo Shinto deity
- sibling of Tsukuyomi moon god in Shinto and Japanese mythology
Accounts
Where Amaterasu appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
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Written 712 CEKojiki
8th-century Japanese chronicle -
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Written 720 CENihon Shoki
8th century book of classical Japanese history
The earliest account held here Computed
Kojiki written 712 CE
A date for the text, never for the deity.Connections
How Amaterasu connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 2
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Attribute 1
What this means
A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.
Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
22 statements on this record
- 15 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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