In ancient times, according to the Suininki in the Nihonshoki (the Chronicle of Japan, Japan's first official history), "Ise no kuni (Ise Province), land of the divine wind, is where the waves from the unchanging land beyond the sea (i.e., heaven) return."
古くは日本書紀の垂仁紀において、「神風（かむかぜ）の伊勢国は常世の波の敷浪の帰する国なり。