Although Susanao ascended to Takamanohara to meet Amaterasu Omikami, his elder sister, on the way to the land of the roots, Amaterasu Omikami, who assumed her brother was coming to deprive her of Takamanohara, armed herself and waited for him.
スサノオは根の国へ行く前に姉の天照大御神に会おうと高天原に上ったが、天照大御神は弟が高天原を奪いに来たものと思い、武装して待ち受けた。