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Mahoroba is an ancient Japanese
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
 word describing a far-off land full of bliss and peace
Peace

Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
. It is roughly comparable to the western concepts of arcadia
Arcadia (utopia)

Arcadia refers to a Utopian vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. The term is derived from the Arcadia which dates to classical antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness....
, a place surrounded by mountains full of harmony and quiet.

Mahoroba is now written only in hiragana
Hiragana

is a Japanese language syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the romanization of Japanese. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each symbol represents one mora ....
 as ????. The origins of the word are not clear; it is described in a poem in the ancient Kojiki
Kojiki

, is the oldest surviving book in Japan. The body of the Kojiki is written in Chinese language, but it includes numerous Japanese names and some phrases....
 as being the perfect place in the mythical country of Yamato
Yamato Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshu. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters ....
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Mahoroba is an ancient Japanese
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
 word describing a far-off land full of bliss and peace
Peace

Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
. It is roughly comparable to the western concepts of arcadia
Arcadia (utopia)

Arcadia refers to a Utopian vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. The term is derived from the Arcadia which dates to classical antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness....
, a place surrounded by mountains full of harmony and quiet.

Mahoroba is now written only in hiragana
Hiragana

is a Japanese language syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the romanization of Japanese. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each symbol represents one mora ....
 as ????. The origins of the word are not clear; it is described in a poem in the ancient Kojiki
Kojiki

, is the oldest surviving book in Japan. The body of the Kojiki is written in Chinese language, but it includes numerous Japanese names and some phrases....
 as being the perfect place in the mythical country of Yamato
Yamato Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshu. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters ....
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|----- bgcolor="#DDDDDD" ! colspan="3"| Poem from the Kojiki |- ! align="center" | Japanese ! align="center" | Romanized version |- | align="center" | ???
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????????? | align="center" | Yamato wa
Kuni no mahoroba
Tatanatsuku
Awokaki-yama gomoreru
Yamato shi uruhashi. |} Note that the Kojiki itself did not use hiragana; the above is a modernized version.