This group gathers artworks depicting the storm god Susanoo and the moon deity Tsukuyomi, two of the Three Precious Children, Sankishi, the most important offspring of the creator god Izanagi alongside their sister the sun goddess Amaterasu, according to Japan's earliest chronicles, the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. Susanoo, the impetuous storm god, appears here both on a fireman's jacket carrying his own likeness and in a print showing his best known deed, slaying the eight headed serpent Yamata no Orochi to save a maiden and win the sword later given to the imperial line. Tsukuyomi, the moon deity and Amaterasu's brother, appears on a Shinbutsu-zue plate, a genre illustrating Shinto and Buddhist deities together.
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1. Wikipedia: Japanese mythology
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Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago.
Nihon Shoki (Wikipedia)
- Has Member: Fireman's Jacket with a Susanoo-no-mikoto Deity Scene (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.158a to c), the Metropolitan Museum of Art accession record identifies the jacket's scene as a Susanoo-no-mikoto deity scene
- Has Member: Gozu Tenno (Susanoo) Slaying Yamata no Orochi (Utagawa Kuniteru I, MFA Boston), the entity's own title identifies the print's subject as Gozu Tenno, Susanoo, slaying Yamata no Orochi
- Has Member: Tsukuyomi, Shinbutsu-zue Plate, the entity's own title identifies the plate's subject as Tsukuyomi, a Shinbutsu-zue deity plate
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