The Wikimedia Commons file record for Utagawa Kunisada's 1856 triptych "Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance," crediting Shukado, a Japanese fine arts dealer, as its documentation source, and describing Amaterasu-Omikami as the central figure of the three-panel composition, emerging from the cave after the other gods set a mirror before it and celebrated.
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Citation
PublisherWikimedia Commons
URLhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_(Kunisada)_1856.png
Source Typereference-database
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a public domain media file record naming its own commercial dealer documentation source, used here only to corroborate the artist, date and subject already given by an independent encyclopedia entry. Connections
Associated With
This source names Amaterasu directly: "documentation source, and describing Amaterasu-Omikami as the central figure of the three-panel composition, emerging from the cave after the other gods set a mirror before it and celebrated."
Source Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)
Claims Backed By This Source (6 claims)
This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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