Yomotsu Hirasaka; slope to the underworld
In Japanese mythology, the slope that separates the land of the living from Yomi, the land of the dead. Appears in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.
Yomotsu Hirasaka is the entrance to the land of the dead that appears in the Kojiki.
黄泉 is the underworld itself, while 黄泉比良坂 is the specific slope or boundary leading to it.
Standard kanji spelling for the mythological slope.
Variant kanji spelling; 平 replaces 比良.
An ancient mythological name in which よもつ is an attributive form related to 黄泉, “the underworld,” with the old genitive particle つ; 比良坂 denotes the slope forming its boundary.