Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture to Ancient Egypt

While taking a leisurely stroll through the city, I discovered ancient Egypt in Morioka. It is the Light Photo Studio, located next to the Hikagemon Green Space on Chuo-dori. This building, completed in 1929 (Showa 4), was designed by Yoneo Hemmi. The south side features a steeply pitched bold roof, while the north side has a butterfly roof. Decorated with glass blocks and stained glass, it is clear that the design was quite innovative for its time.
At the entrance of this pseudo-Western style photo studio, there is a relief (carving) of an ancient Egyptian goddess. Why was this motif chosen?
I could try visiting the studio owner to ask, but I'll try imagining it myself first.
First, I search the British Museum's website for images of murals and statues related to Egypt. My keywords are a woman sitting in a chair with a bird on a plate. Before long, I found a similar statue. Her name is 'Mut'. Next, I search for images using 'Mut'. I find a description stating that she is also the wife of the god Amun. The plate and bird are also depicted.
Could the plate and bird in the Light Photo Studio's relief be hieroglyphs (a type of script used in ancient Egypt)? When I searched again by adding 'hieroglyph' to the search criteria, it was indeed written that she is the great queen Mut.
It took quite a while to get this far, so although it might be a bit of a stretch, I think it is safe to assume she is Mut.
Now, who is Mut? She is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. In ancient Egypt, the god Amun was considered an essential presence, meaning 'the one who stays close.' It is said that he was originally a god without much self-assertion, and he relied on the strong goddess Mut and made her his wife.
So why did she end up decorating the entrance of a photo studio? Mut has various other names as a goddess. These include 'Mother of the Sun' and 'Eye of Ra'.
Although the sun god Ra was considered to be male, there is a theory that the sun god was often thought to be more mainstream as a goddess than a god, and that this might have been Mut. If you think of Amaterasu Omikami in Japanese mythology as a sun god and a goddess, it starts to feel plausible.
At first, it was called the Eye of the Moon, known as Wadjet. Later, it was called the Eye of Ra. It is a well-known symbol of ancient Egypt. Ra was a sun god, and the ancient Egyptians believed that Ra himself transformed along with the rising and setting of the sun. At sunrise, he appeared as Khepri in the form of a scarab beetle, and during the day, he flew through the heavens in the form of a falcon. If you think of the 'bird' stained glass on the east side of this building as a falcon, it fits.
Well, I seem to have gotten off track, but I actually have my own keywords. If you replace 'sun' with 'exposure' and 'eye' with 'lens,' these are essential elements for photography. Therefore, perhaps this photo studio placed Mut at the entrance as an important goddess related to photography.
I have made my deduction, but what is the truth? I decided to visit the Light Photo Studio.
'I'm sorry. Both my father and my husband have passed away, so I don't know why it was made that way. Until you asked me just now, I had never questioned it. I should have asked them about it.' The wife smiled and said, 'That is an interesting way to think about it,' when I shared my theory. Perhaps it is better for the mystery to remain a mystery.