Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess. When her father, Izanagi, escaped from his visit to Yomi, he had to perform a cleansing ritual in the river Woto and it was then, from the god’s left eye, that Amaterasu was born. She is also the sister of the storm god Susano-o and the moon god Tsukuyomi.
Hitoe (lit. 'unlined robe') refers to each individual robe layered on top of a kosode (小袖, lit. 'small sleeves')?, a type of short-sleeved Japanese garment and the direct predecessor of the kimono.
