taka-ichi

Updated: May 2, 2025

Where was the place thus designated? By a majority of Japanese interpreters Takama-ga-hara is identified as the region of Taka-ichi in Yamato province. The word did not refer to anything supernatural but was used simply in an honorific sense. To-day in Yamato province there is a hill called Takama-yama and a plain named Takama-no.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

The Records say that when the Sun goddess retired to a rock cave, a multitude of Kami met at Taka-ichi to concert measures for enticing her out, and this Taka-ichi is considered to be undoubtedly the place of the same name in Yamato.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era