Editing Amaterasu (section)

=== Descendants ===
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Amaterasu has five sons, [[Ame-no-oshihomimi]], [[Ame no Hohi]], [[Amatsuhikone]], [[Ikutsuhikone]], and [[Kumanokusubi]], who were given birth to by Susanoo by chewing her hair jewels. According to one account in the ''Nihon Shoki'', it was because these children were male that Susanoo won during the ritual to prove his intent, even though they were not his children, but hers. This explanation of the outcome of the ritual contradicts that in the ''Kojiki'', according to which it was because she gave birth to female children using his sword, and those children were his. The ''Kojiki'' claims he won because he had daughters to whom she gave birth, while the ''Nihon Shoki'' claims he won because he himself gave birth to her sons. Several figures and noble clans claim descent from Amaterasu most notably [[Imperial House of Japan|the Japanese imperial family]] through Emperor Jimmu who descended from her grandson [[Ninigi-no-Mikoto|Ninigi]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kitagawa|first=Joseph Mitsuo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1xcc4cGL5cC&pg=PA145|title=On Understanding Japanese Religion|date=1987-10-21|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-10229-0|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":03" />

Her son [[Ame no Hohi]] is considered the ancestral [[kami]] of clans in [[Izumo Province|Izumo]] which includes the [[Haji clan]], [[Sugawara clan]], and the [[Senge clan]]. The legendary [[sumo]] wrestler [[Nomi no Sukune]] is believed to be a 14th-generation descendant of Amenohohi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Amenohohi|url=http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=33|access-date=2020-11-21|website=eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp|archive-date=2020-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130114722/http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=33|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Borgen|first=Robert|date=1975|title=The Origins of the Sugawara. A History of the Haji Family|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383977|journal=Monumenta Nipponica|volume=30|issue=4|pages=405–422|doi=10.2307/2383977|jstor=2383977|issn=0027-0741}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Cali|first1=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNV7LoexIgoC&q=Amenohohi|title=Shinto Shrines: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan's Ancient Religion|last2=Dougill|first2=John|date=2012|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3713-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sumo|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Sumo/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[World History Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>