Mountains of Nara Prefecture - Mount Miwa, Mount ?Mine, Kii Mountains, Mount Shigi, Mount Yoshino, Mount Ikoma, Mount Takami, Mount Hakky? (Paperback)

Chapters: Mount Miwa, Mount ?mine, Kii Mountains, Mount Shigi, Mount Yoshino, Mount Ikoma, Mount Takami, Mount Hakky?, Mount Azami, Mount ?tenj?, Mount Shisuniwa, Mount My?jin, Mount Shakka, Mount Kunimi, Mount ?daigahara, Mount Wakakusa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mount Miwa - Mount Miwa was first described in literature (Kojiki) as Mount Mimoro (). Both names were in common use until the reign of Emperor Yryaku, after which Miwa was preferred. Mimoro has been held to mean something like "august, beautiful" (mi) and "room," or "hall" (moro corruption of muro). The current kanji (mi) and (wa) are purely phonetic. It has also been written, another a phonetic spelling with the same pronunciation. Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria, jp. sugi) grows all over the mountain and is considered a holy tree. Archeological and literary records demonstrates that Mount Miwa was the center of early Yamato power until about the year 350 CE. The Nihon Shoki also records that a thousand Emishi swore alliance to the Yamato court while facing Mount Miwa. Religious worship surrounding Mount Miwa have been deemed the oldest and more primitive of its kind in Japan, where the very mountain itself is designated sacrosanct. The kami generally associated with Mount Miwa is mononushi (mono-nushi-no-kami), a rain kami. However, the Nihon Shoki notes that there was a degree of uncertainly when it came to naming the principal kami of Mount Miwa. In early Shinto, mountains were regarded as sacred sites where kami reside. Mount Miwa was a particularly prominent example of this. Myths and traditions suggest that Mount Miwa was worshiped for its powerful kami long before recorded history. Even today, the mountain itself is unusual for being revered at miwa Shrine as the shinta...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10597220