"高天原" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [ta̠ka̠ma̠ no̞ ha̠ɾa̠] Forms: 高天原 [canonical] (ruby: 高天原(たかまのはら)), takama no hara [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE). Compound of 高 (taka, “high”) + 天の原 (ama no hara, “plains of heaven”), with the final -a of taka dropped due to haplology. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{C.E.|nodots=1}} CE, {{CE}} CE, {{com|ja|高|天の原|t1=high|t2=plains of heaven|tr1=taka|tr2=ama no hara}} 高 (taka, “high”) + 天の原 (ama no hara, “plains of heaven”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|たかま の はら}} 高天原(たかまのはら) • (takama no hara)
  1. the sky, heavens
    Sense id: en-高天原-ja-noun-TR0g4DmY
  2. (Japanese mythology, Shinto) Takamagahara (the realm of the gods, as opposed to the realm of mortals and the realm of the dead) Tags: Japanese
    Sense id: en-高天原-ja-noun-HtVFp8ie Categories (other): Japanese mythology, Shinto, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 3 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Mythological locations Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 12 75 14 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 13 65 22 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 13 70 17 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 3 kanji: 22 51 27 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 14 68 19 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 11 63 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 16 84 Disambiguation of Mythological locations: 10 76 14 Topics: Shinto, human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, religion, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [ta̠ka̠ma̠ ɡa̠ ha̠ɾa̠] Forms: 高天原 [canonical] (ruby: 高天原(たかまがはら)), takama ga hara [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. Compound of 高 (taka, “high”) + 天 (ama, “heaven”) + が (ga, archaic attributive or possessive particle) + 原 (hara, “plain”), with the final -a of taka dropped due haplology. Because there is no additional kanji (such as 之 or 乃) attested in the compound to demonstrate a particle, both が (ga) and の (no) are interchangeable. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{af|ja|高|天|が|原|pos3=archaic attributive or possessive particle|t1=high|t2=heaven|t4=plain|tr1=taka|tr2=ama|tr3=ga|tr4=hara}} 高 (taka, “high”) + 天 (ama, “heaven”) + が (ga, archaic attributive or possessive particle) + 原 (hara, “plain”), {{ja-l/helper|之||}} 之, {{ja-l|之}} 之, {{ja-l/helper|乃||}} 乃, {{ja-l|乃}} 乃, {{ja-r|が}} が (ga), {{ja-r|の}} の (no) Head templates: {{ja-noun|たかま が はら}} 高天原(たかまがはら) • (takama ga hara)
  1. Same as たかまのはら (takama no hara) above Synonyms: たかまのはら [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: 葦原の中つ国 (ashihara no nakatsukuni) (ruby: 葦原(あしはら), 中(なか), 国(くに)), 根の堅洲国 (ne no katasu kuni) (ruby: 根(ね), 堅(かた), 洲(す), 国(くに)), 黄泉 (yomi) (ruby: 黄泉(よみ)), 高天 (kōten) (ruby: 高天(こうてん))
    Sense id: en-高天原-ja-noun-l-3CyItV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "高天原"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "高天原",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "高天原"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "高天原",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.