Yamato sanzan

Yamato Yong Jiang (Japanese大 和 三 山, The three mountains of Yamato ) is the Japanese term for the three mountains Miminashiyama (Japanese耳 成 山), Unebiyama (Japanese亩 傍山) and Ama no Kaguyama (Japanese天香 久 山) near the town of Kashihara in Nara prefecture, Japan, which was declared in 2005 to a nationally recognized natural monument.

Yamato Sanzan

The Yamato Sanzan are located on the territory of the historic province of Yamato, and together form a triangle whose vertices are approximately 3 km apart. The three mountains are located in the south of Nara basin in the Asuka region and framed once the first built in the Chinese style ancient Japanese capital of Fujiwara - kyō one from which the country was ruled by the years 694-710.

They are mentioned in the 8th century Man'yōshū and other historical literature sources.

Miminashiyama (耳 成 山)

Coordinates: 34 ° 31 ' N, 135 ° 48' O34.514663888889135.80563055556140

Once located in the north of the old capital, he finds himself in today's district Kihara -chō of Kashihara in Nara prefecture. It is 139.7 meters high. Its almost perfect cone shape is probably due to the fact that the mountain out of a long extinct volcano emerged in subsequent lowering of the entire terrain.

Unebiyama (亩 傍山)

Coordinates: 34 ° 30 'N, 135 ° 47' O34.492416666667135.78486666667199Koordinaten: 34 ° 30 'N, 135 ° 47'

A 199.2 -meter-high dome-shaped volcano, once located in the west of the first capital, is found in the south of Nara basin in present-day district Yamamoto -chō of Kashihara.

It is, until the Edo period would have on the mountain and its slopes more than 70 temples stood. Today, there is still the Jimyō -ji (慈明 寺) to be found, which belongs to the Zen Buddhist school Soto shū. In addition, there is the Shinto shrine Unebiyamaguchi -jinja (亩 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' O34.495447222222135.81823888889152

Located in the east of the former capital of Fujiwara - kyō, this 152 meter high hill nichtvulkanische can be found in the southeast of the city of Kashihara.