Suspended Ame-no-Uzume

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The Japanese Shinto goddess of dawn, Ame-no-Uzume, became the inventor of dance and comedy after she put on a performance to tempt the goddess of the rising sun, Amaterasu Ōmikami, out of her self-imposed seclusion in a cave that plunged the world into total darkness. While in public she gets joy out of bringing comedic entertainment to others, in private she enjoys the comforting restriction experienced while wrapped in shibari, or Japanese rope bondage.

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