あめのうずめ

Japanese

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【天鈿女】
[proper noun] [from early 700s] (Shinto, Japanese mythology) a goddess who performed a merry ritual dance to entertain the gods of heaven, to lure 天照 (Amaterasu) out of the cave 天岩戸 (Ama no Iwato)
Alternative spelling
天宇受売
(This term, あめのうずめ (amenōzume), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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