著者

阿部 真司

出版者

高知大学

雑誌

高知医科大学一般教育紀要 (ISSN:09123083)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.1a-15a, 1986-03-31

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It has been generally thought that Yomino-kuni, the region of the dead, is under the ground or among the mountains and that Yomotsu-hirasaka, a border between Yomino-kuni and this world, forms a slope which is within the territory of Yomino-kuni. Having considered, however, the meaning of 'saka' and its examples in Kojiki, I found that Yornotsu-hirasaka, a point connecting Yomino-kuni and this world, forms a pass or a flat top of a mountain and that Yomino-kuni is a far-away land which is imagined to be extending beyond the Yomotsu-hirasaka on the same ground as this world.