本居宣長
Literally translated, the name 'Amaterasu-Ōmikami' means "the great august deity ("ō" "great" + honorific prefix "mi-" + "kami") illuminating the heavens" or "heaven-illuminating great deity." Basil Hall Chamberlain, however, noted while citing Motoori Norinaga in his translation of the "Kojiki", that it should mean "shining in heaven", not "Heaven-Illuminating", and gave his own simplified translation as the "Heaven-Shining-Great-August-Deity". The name is derived from the verb "amateru" "to illuminate / shine in the sky" ("ama" "sky, heaven" + "teru" "to shine") combined with the honorific auxiliary verb "-su".