九きゅう重ちょうの天てん

expression, noun

highest heavens; ninth heaven

A literary and archaic expression referring to the highest realm of heaven in classical Chinese and Japanese cosmology. Rare in modern Japanese outside of poetic or historical contexts.

• 九きゅう重ちょうの天てんに昇のぼるような心地ここちがした。

  I felt as if I were ascending to the highest heavens.