Editing Amaterasu (section)

=== Siblings ===
Amaterasu has many siblings, most notably [[Susanoo-no-Mikoto|Susanoo]] and [[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|Tsukiyomi]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Izanagi and Izanami {{!}} Shintō deity|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Izanagi|website=britannica.com|access-date=2020-11-20|language=en}}</ref> [[Basil Hall Chamberlain]] used the words "elder brother" to translate her dialog referring to Susanoo in the ''Kojiki'', even though he noted that she was his elder sister.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj020.htm | title=The Kojiki: Volume I: Section XIII.—The August Oath|website=Sacred-texts.com }}</ref> The word (which was also used by Izanami to address her elder brother and husband Izanagi) was ''nase'' (phonetically spelt {{Lang|ja|那勢}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E4%BA%8B%E8%A8%98/%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%B7|title=古事記/上卷 - 维基文库，自由的图书馆|website=Zh.wikisource.org|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref> in the ''Kojiki''; modern dictionaries use the semantic spelling {{Lang|ja|汝兄}}, whose [[kanji]] literally mean {{Gloss|my elder brother}}), an ancient term used only by females to refer to their brothers, who had higher status than them. (As opposed to males using {{nihongo|''nanimo''|汝妹|extra={{gloss|my younger sister}}}} ({{Lang|ja|那邇妹}} in the ''Kojiki'') to refer to their sisters, who had lower status than them.)<ref>{{cite book|title=スーパー大辞林|trans-title=Super [[Daijirin]]}}</ref> The ''Nihon Shoki'' used the Chinese word {{Lang|zh|弟}} ({{Gloss|younger brother}}) instead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%9B%B8%E7%B4%80/%E5%8D%B7%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80|title=日本書紀/卷第一 - 维基文库，自由的图书馆|website=Zh.wikisource.org|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref>

Some tellings say she had a sister named [[Wakahiru-me|Wakahirume]] who was a weaving maiden and helped Amaterasu weave clothes for the other kami in [[Takamagahara|heaven]]. Wakahirume was later accidentally killed by Susanoo.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amaterasu|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Amaterasu/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=[[World History Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>

Other traditions say she had an older brother named [[Ebisu (mythology)|Hiruko]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Coulter|first1=Charles Russell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWxekbhM1yEC&q=amaterasu&pg=PT91|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities|last2=Turner|first2=Patricia|date=2013-07-04|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-96397-2|language=en}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2021}}