Yamato sanzan
Yamato sanzan ( Japanese 大 和 三 山 ; The three mountains of Yamato ) is the Japanese name for the three mountains Miminashiyama ( Japanese 耳 成 山 ), Unebiyama ( Japanese 畝 傍山 ) and Ama no Kaguyama ( Japanese 天香 久 山 ) near the city Kashihara in Nara Prefecture , Japan , which was declared a nationally recognized natural monument in 2005.
Yamato sanzan
The Yamato sanzan are located in the historical province of Yamato and together form a triangle, the corners of which are about 3 km apart. The three mountains are located in the south of the Nara valley basin in the Asuka region and once framed the first capital of Japanese antiquity built on the Chinese model, Fujiwara-kyō , from where the country was ruled from 694 to 710.
They are mentioned in the Man'yōshū of the 8th century and in other historical literature sources.
Miminashiyama ( 耳 成 山 )
Coordinates: 34 ° 31 ' N , 135 ° 48' E
Once located in the north of the old capital, it can be found in today's Kihara-chō district of Kashihara in Nara Prefecture . It is 139.7 m high. Its almost perfect conical shape is probably due to the fact that the mountain emerged from a long extinct volcano when the entire terrain subsided later.
Unebiyama ( 畝 傍山 )
Coordinates: 34 ° 30 ′ N , 135 ° 47 ′ E
A 199.2 m high, dome-shaped volcano, once located in the west of the first capital, can be found in the south of the Nara basin in today's Yamamoto-chō district of Kashihara.
It is said that up until the Edo period there were more than 70 temples on the mountain and on its slopes. Today there is still the Jimyō-ji ( 慈明 寺 ) to be found, which belongs to the Buddhist Zen school Sōtō-shū . There is also the Shinto shrine Unebiyamaguchi-jinja ( 畝 火山 口 神社 ).
Ama no Kaguyama (also Ame no Kaguyama; 天香 具 山 , 天香 久 山 )
Coordinates: 34 ° 30 ' N , 135 ° 49' E
Located in the east of the former capital Fujiwara-kyō, this 152 m high, non-volcanic hill can be found in the southeast of the city of Kashihara.
literature
- Gen Itasaka (ed.): Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan , Vol. 8, Tokyo: Kodansha (et al.) 1983, p. 310, sv Yamato Sanzan . ISBN 0-87011-628-2