Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 29519
The Gods Perform Music to Lure the Sun Goddess from Her Cave
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
- Date / 年代
- 1844-1855
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 481 × 322 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 青木ソラ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
This print was conserved with the support of the Robert F. Lange Foundation. After her brother Susanoo damaged her fields and palaces, the enraged Sun Goddess Amaterasu hid inside a cave, plunging the world into darkness. The other gods tricked Amaterasu into coming out by playing music and dancing outside the cave. When Amaterasu emerged to inspect the noise, they said that the celebration was for a new goddess. The other gods placed a mirror in a tree and told Amaterasu, who had never seen her reflection before, that her reflection was the new goddess. She returned with the other gods, bringing sunlight back to the land. Like Hiroshige's print of Izanagi and Izanami on display nearby, thi…
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