Izanagi, arriving at the starting point of Yomotsu Hirasaka (the slope that leads to the land of the dead), situated at the border between the land of dead and the land of the living, picked three peaches from the peach tree growing there.
イザナギは黄泉の国と地上の境である黄泉比良坂（よもつひらさか）の坂本に辿り着くと、そこに生えていたモモの木から3つの桃を取った。