As an example of a story similar to that of how Amaterasu (sun) was born when Izanagi washed his left eye and how Tsukiyomi (moon) was born when he washed his right eye at a purification ritual in Tsukushi, Hyuga after he came back from the underworld, there is a story in Chinese mythology, in which the left eye became the sun and the right eye became the moon from Creator Pangu's corpse.
イザナギが黄泉の国から帰ってきたときに筑紫の日向にておこなった禊のときに左目を洗うとアマテラス（太陽）が、右目を洗うとツキヨミ（月）が誕生したという話の類似例としては、中国神話において創造神たる盤古の死体のうち左目が太陽に、右目が月に化生したとされる話が見られる。