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1. Takamagahara

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   Takamagahara (高天原, literally "High Plain of Heaven") is the celestial realm in Shinto and Japanese mythology that serves as the primary residence of the kami and the seat of divine governance. According to classical mythological texts such as the Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE), Takamagahara was established as the highest domain of the spiritual cosmos, presided over by Amaterasu, the supreme solar deity.[^1] The realm functions as both a cosmological principle and a hist…