Ame-no-Uzume

Ame-no-Uzume
Ame-no-Uzume
Goddess of the Dawn, meditation, and the arts
	The statue of Ame-no-Uzume at Amanoiwato-jinja
Consort	Sarutahiko Ōkami
Equivalents
Greek	Eos
Hindu	Ushas
Roman	Aurora
Nuristani	Disani

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the Great'.) 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 kami possibly due to her relationship with her husband.^[2] She is also known as Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, The Great Persuader, and The Heavenly Alarming Female.^[3] She is depicted in kyōgen farce as Okame, a woman who revels in her sensuality.^{[citation needed]}

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^ "Treasures of the Morikami". Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^ Herbert, Jean (2011). Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-203-84216-4.

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[2] "Treasures of the Morikami". Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

[3] Herbert, Jean (2011). Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-203-84216-4.

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