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. |