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| Mount Kamuriki | |
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| 冠着山 | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,252 m (4,108 ft) |
| Coordinates | 36°28′07″N138°06′24″E / 36.46861°N 138.10667°E /36.46861; 138.10667 |
| Geography | |
  Mount Kamuriki Mount Kamuriki (Japan) Show map of Japan | |
| Parent range | Chikuma Mountains |
Mount Kamurigi (冠着山,Kamuriki-san) is a 1,252 m (4,108 ft) mountain peak on the border of the city ofChikuma and the village ofChikuhoku inNagano Prefecture in theChūbu region ofJapan. It is also calledUbasuteyama orObasuteyama (姨捨山) after an old legend. the mountain is located within the borders of theYatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park.
Mount Kamuriki is southwest of the Nagano Basin and is aQuaternary intrusion into the central uplift zone and western sedimentary zone of northernFossa Magna where the sandstone, conglomerate and tuff deposits of theTertiary strata were deposited during the time the area was ocean floor. The summit is a bipyriteandesite eroded lava dome, and although no direct evidence of volcanic activity exists, columnar joints can be observed on the rock on the eastern slope of the summit. A large portion of the summit collapsed during the1847 Nagano earthquake.
The mountain is strongly associated with theUbasuteyama legend, which is mentioned in theKokin Wakashū poetry anthology of 905 AD, indicating that the legend itself was much older. PerJapanese folklore, the pre-modern Japanese practicedsenicide, whereby an infirm or elderly relative who were a burden on the community were taken to a remote, desolate place, and left there to die.[1][2] The identification of Mount Kamuriki as this location appears to be from legends in theYamato Monogatari (951 AD), theSarashina Nikki (1059 AD), and theKonjaku Monogatarishū, (c.1120 AD) among others. The mountain has a landform (theBokodaki Iwa), which resembles a person carrying another person on his back up the mountain.
The mountain and the Tagoto-no-tsukirice terraces at its foothills were designated one of the NationalPlaces of Scenic Beauty of Japan in 1990.[3] and also anImportant Cultural Landscape of Japan in the year 2010.[4] The Tagoto-no-tsuki rice terraces were developed during the mid-16th century in the middle of theEdo period, and approximately 1500 rice terraces remain in use. The area under protection by the government is approximately 40 hectares at an altitude of 460 to 560 meters. The landscape was featured in literature and painting subjects, including somehaiku byBasho, especially in the Edo period.
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