Funaoka-yama
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.jpg) Funaoka in August 2008 |
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| height | 111.7 m TP | |
| location | Kyoto , Japan | |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 2 '20 " N , 135 ° 44' 30" E | |
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The Funaoka-yama ( Japanese. 船 岡山 ) is a mountain in the city of Kyoto .
Overview
Funaoka-yama is located in the Kita-ku district . Its highest point is 111 m, its area 25,000 tsubo (8.3 ha ) and it is considered a small mountain / hill ( 小山 , Koyama ). The ruins of the Funaoka-yama castle and the Takeisao (also called Kenkun) shrine were equipped as part of the Funaoka-yama Park ( 船 岡山 公園 Funaoka-yama Kōen ).
The Funaoka-yama Park is in the urban planning park No. 1, but a piece of land belonging to Daitoku-ji is also leased. A third order trigonometric point is set up on the mountain top . The Funaoka-yama offers a good view of the Gozan no Okuribi bonfire as part of the Obon festival . At that time the mountain is overcrowded. The origin of the name - literally "boat hill" - can be traced back to the boat-shaped area according to the "picture collection of famous places in the capital" ( 都 名 所 図 会 , Miyako Meisho Zue ). There are faults on the north and south sides of the mountain that are said to have lifted the mountain out.
history
In the Heian period , Funaoka-yama is mentioned as a major point of Heian-kyō . Funaoka-yama has always been a picturesque landscape. In view of the beautiful view, Sei Shōnagon's pillow book speaks of Oka wa Funaoka ( 岡 は 船 岡 ; "a hill [is] the Funaoka"). The hill is also mentioned in Yoshida Kenkōs Tsurezuregusa . After the defeat in the Hogen rebellion , their leader Minamoto no Tameyoshi was executed in Funaoka in 1156.
During the Ōnin War , the commanders of the Western Army, the Shugo of the Bizen Province named Yamana Noriyuki and the Shugo of the Tango Province named Isshiki Yoshinao, built Funaoka Castle in 1467, where they entrenched themselves. The area, which also included Funaoka-yama, later became known as Nishijin ( 西 陣 ), roughly the western military position.
After Oda Nobunaga's death in 1582, Emperor Ōgimachi Toyotomi Hideyoshi granted permission to build Oda Nobunaga's mausoleum in Funaoka-yama. In 1869, in a proclamation from Emperor Meiji, a Shinto shrine was provided in memory of Nobunaga. The Kenkun Shrine was opened in 1875.
literature
- Kyoto : residence of the emperors and gods. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 3, pp. 40-66. Informative experience report: " Hisako Matsubara , daughter of a high Shinto priest in Kyoto, describes her hometown and the impulses that emanated from here and changed the country". In particular: "A mountain bears witness to a thousand years of city history - the Funaoka hill". ISSN 0342-8311
gallery
From the summit towards Gozan no Okuribi
In Funaoka-yama Park
Kenkun-jinja
Cultural asset
In 1931 Funaoka-yama was declared an "area with beautiful nature" ( 風 致 地区 , Fūchichiku ). This protects the nature of the soil and the current state from profound changes. Funaoka was declared a Historical Monument on February 15, 1968. 1995 Funaoka was included in the "Selection of 200 nature (sites) Kyōtos".
Directions
From Kitaōji Station on the Karasuma Line of Kyōto Subway, take a bus to one of the following lines: 1, 12, 204, 205, 206, 8, M1, and get off at Kenkun-jinja mae ( 建 勲 神社 前 , “in front the Kenkun Shrine ”).