Amaterasu is best known as Japan’s primordial sun goddess, from which, legend tells us, all of Japan’s emperors descend. The float name Iwatō Yama means “stone door float.” This recalls a legend when Amaterasu became angry with her mischievous younger brother and god of storms Susanō No-Mikoto, the central deity of the Gion Festival and Yasaka Shrine. Her rage led her to hide away in a cave, and block its opening with a large boulder. When the sun goddess shut herself in a cave, that meant darkness for everyone and everything on the planet. What to do?
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