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Tokoyo

The everlasting otherworld across the sea in Japanese speech. Not Takamagahara as high heaven, and not a generic paradise.

Also known as Tokoyo-no-kuni

Shinto

Tokoyo appears in Shinto.
The Kojiki names Tokoyo, the everlasting otherworld across the sea, in early land and otherworld speech kept apart from Takamagahara and Yomi. A named tokoyo land in that compilation, not a generic paradise dump.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Tokoyo appears in Kojiki.
Tokoyo otherworld naming is attested in the Kojiki’s kami geography. Named presence in that text hub.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.