Meanwhile, Shinto scholars such as Kanekata URABE, an author of Shaku Nihongi (annotated text of the Nihon Shoki), and Kanera ICHIJO thought that deities were the roots of everything in the universe, and that Takamanohara was located in the heavens.
また釈日本紀の（卜部兼方）や一条兼良といった神道の立場の学者は、神は万物の宇宙の根源であり、高天原は虚空にあるとしている。