takama-no

Updated: July 4, 2026

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