It is believed to be a place where various kami and spirits of ancestors live with eternal youth.
[1] Ne-no-kuni is sometimes considered to be identical to Tokoyo no Kuni, or alternatively Yomi the underworld.
In the reign of Empress Kogyoku a fanatical cult dedicated to the god of Tokoyo was said to have emerged.
He made a request that a magnificent palace – rooted in the earth and reaching up to heaven – be built in his honor, and then withdrew himself into the "less-than-one-hundred eighty-road-bendings" (百不足八十坰手 momotarazu yasokumade, i.e. the unseen world of the spirit) and disappeared from the physical realm.
[5][6] The son of Amaterasu Ame no Hohi was sent to run Izumo Taisha for Susanoo when the transfer of land occurred as part of the agreement,[7] and his descendants became the Izumo clan who run the shrine today.