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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Emperor Hirohito
Japanese emperor descended from Amaterasu the sun goddess
a living kami in white Shinto robes performing sacred ritual before the chrysanthemum throne
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.