ten ni mo noboru kokochi lit. ‘a feeling of rising up even to heaven’
Japanese idiom, everyday. To be extremely happy and delighted.
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How do people use 天にも昇る心地
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Everyday Japanese with a slightly bookish glow, for news like passing an exam or hearing a yes. The last word changes freely: 心地, 思い and 気持ち all work, followed by だ or です, and you can soften it with ような: “天にも昇るような気持ちです”.
Also said 天にも昇る思い, 天にも昇る気持ち, 天にも上がる心地
天にも昇る心地
in real sentences
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トムは天にも昇る思いだった。
Tomu wa ten ni mo noboru omoi datta.
Tom was over the moon.
Tatoeba, sentence by small_snow, translation by Hybrid, CC BY 2.0 FR
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天にも昇る心地だったよ。
Ten ni mo noboru kokochi datta yo.
I jumped for joy.
Tatoeba, sentence by bunbuku, translation by CM, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does 天にも昇る心地
come from?
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (via Kotobank) lists it with 上がる as an older choice of verb and quotes the Noh play Fujie (around 1532), where the character Tsukiwaka’s heart is “天にもあがるばかり”, ready to rise up to heaven. That’s the earliest example it gives, and nobody records where the picture first came from.
Mistakes learners make with 天にも昇る心地
Dropping the も. “天に昇る” on its own means going up to heaven, which is how Japanese talks about a soul leaving the body, while the も (even) makes it a comparison: so happy you could float up as high as that.
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