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What does Amaterasu mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Amaterasu? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Japanese) The Japanese sun goddess, and most important Shinto deity; she is the daughter of Izanagi and Izanami and the sister of Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.
  2. (poetic) The Sun itself.
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The new composition he has written, Amaterasu, is based on stories from the Japanese Shinto religion.
Hey, you're not thinking of selling Amaterasu plutonium and Beowulf gadolinium, are you?
The book is about Nagasaki survivor Amaterasu Takahashi, who believes her grandson and daughter died on the day the US dropped the atomic bomb.
And there was rioting on Amaterasu, because of public indignation over a fraudulent election.
The right to rule of the Japanese emperor, descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, was absolute.
Amaterasu is living out a lonely widowhood in exile in America, when a disfigured man comes knocking, claiming to be the grandson she believed had been killed.

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