アマテラス

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of アマテラス – see the following entries.

[proper noun] (Japanese mythology, Shinto) Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess

[proper noun] (poetic) the Sun

[verb] (epithet) heavenly, august, in heaven (from the literal sense of “shining in heaven” as an honorific verb phrase; used to modify a noun or noun phrase)

Alternative spelling
あまでらす

【天照あまてらす】

[verb] (Classical Japanese, honorific, literal, Japanese mythology, of gods and heavenly bodies) Alternative form of 天照る (amateru, “to shine in heaven”)

[verb] (Classical Japanese, honorific, figurative, of a ruler) to rule a nation

Alternative spelling
あまでらす

(This term, アマテラス, is the katakana spelling of the above terms.)

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