and we lived happily ever after

The mountain was a place of worship for the ancient Japanese people.
　
"Mountain is place climb to heaven for soul of the dead."
"And mountain is place God has come down there."
　
They thought so about mountain originally.
Incidentally there is a word "Joudo" in the Buddhism.　

"Paradise, which is in the land of endlessly far west.”

India Buddhism thought so about Joudo originally.
Joudo and Mountain worship.
After Buddhism introduction to Japan，these two thoughts was linked and transformation by the japanese people.

"There is Hell valley of Buddhism on the mountainside."　
"Soul of the dead go up the mountain through there and reach Joudo of the summit."
”Heaven as Joudo is exists in the mountain familiar of ours.”　
　
Maybe around the beginning of the 11th century，Japanese were allowed to establish the thought that.
After further period，late 12th century era.

”Joudo is a golden world.”

Such a thought had established in Buddhist culture in japan.

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There is a word ”Tokoyo” in the religion of the Japanese originally.
Tokoyo was considered ”The land of forever life” that is across the sea by them.
　
This forever life was also included meaning "once died person".
Because if die once, not die again.
In other words the land of forever life was also the land of the dead.　
　
　
By the way there is a word ”Hourai mountain”in Taoism of China.
　
”In Hourai mountain across the sea is exist the elixir of life.”
　
There was such a legend in China.　
Some cases of old books in Japan,Tokoyo was written as Hourai mountain.
So there was effects of Taoism to Japanese thought in addition to Buddhism.
　
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Well，Joudo-daira of Azuma mountain in Fukushima.
Azuma mountain is very beautiful foliage in autumn.
That landscape is like a golden world.
Joudo-daira is landscape like a Hell conversely.

In this case，we go up the mountain through golden world and reach Hell of the summit.
I feel like that.
　
But come to think of it，Joudo-daira is mere plateau.
There is not at the top of the Azuma mountain.
　
In other word，we go up the mountain through Hell and reach in Hourai mountain of the land of the dead.
The land of the dead is also the land of forever life.

And we lived happily ever after.