The Wikimedia Commons file record for Utagawa Kunisada's 1856 triptych "Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance," crediting Shukado, a Japanese fine arts dealer, as its documentation source, and describing Amaterasu-Omikami as the central figure of the three-panel composition, emerging from the cave after the other gods set a mirror before it and celebrated.
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Citation
PublisherWikimedia Commons
URLhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Origin_of_Iwato_Kagura_Dance_Amaterasu_by_Toyokuni_III_(Kunisada)_1856.png
Source Typereference-database
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a public domain media file record naming its own commercial dealer documentation source, used here only to corroborate the artist, date and subject already given by an independent encyclopedia entry. Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Amaterasu directly: "documentation source, and describing Amaterasu-Omikami as the central figure of the three-panel composition, emerging from the cave after the other gods set a mirror before it and celebrated."
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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