Utsushi-yo
This present life; the manifest world. In modem Shinto theology based on interpretations of the
Kojiki and
Nihongi, this world as opposed to the hidden world of spirits and ancestors (
kakuri-yo),
takama-no-hara above,
tokoyo the eternal land and
yomi the gloomy world of the dead.
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto.
Brian Bocking.