(Painting of Amaterasu emerging from Her Cave by Shunsai Toshimasa, 1887.)
Happy 2012 everyone - May She bless each of you in the new year and always!
"Heaven and Earth are one; there is no barrier between them. The High Heavenly Plain is the high heavenly plain which covers all countries of the world, and the Sun Goddess is the goddess who reigns in that heaven.. .casting her light to the very ends of heaven and earth and for all time. There is not a single country in the world which does not receive her beneficent illuminations…This Goddess is the splendor of all splendors." (Motoori Norinaga, 1771.)
