An illustrated plate depicting Tsukuyomi, the Shinto moon deity, from Shinbutsu-zue, a five-volume manuscript compendium of Shinto and Buddhist deities attributed to Hashimoto Sadahide, known by the art name Gyokuranzai Sadahide, a documented ukiyo-e artist active into the 1870s. The manuscript, dated to the late Edo period and held by the National Diet Library of Japan, illustrates dozens of kami from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki genealogical narratives in sequence; its Tsukuyomi plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi. The compendium's title, meaning an illustrated gathering of gods and buddhas, reflects the syncretic Shinto and Buddhist devotional culture of Edo Japan even where, as with this plate, the individual subject is drawn from Shinto myth alone.
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This source names Amaterasu directly: "Tsukuyomi plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
This source names Izanagi directly: "of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
This source names Izanagi directly: "of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
This source names Susanoo directly: "plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
This source names Susanoo directly: "plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
This source names Tsukuyomi directly: "An illustrated plate depicting Tsukuyomi, the Shinto moon deity, from Shinbutsu-zue, a five-volume manuscript compendium of Shinto and Buddhist deities attributed to Hashimoto Sadahide, known by the..."
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The plate's named subject in the manuscript's own sequence of Shinto and Buddhist deities, held by the National Diet Library of Japan.
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