Mount Mitake (Hyōgo)

Mount Mitake
御嶽
Highest point
Elevation 793.4 m (2,603 ft)
Coordinates 35°7.38′N 135°14.41′E / 35.12300°N 135.24017°E / 35.12300; 135.24017
Naming
Pronunciation [mitake]
Geography
Location Sasayama, Hyōgo, Japan
Parent range Taki Mountains
The mountains around Mitake

Mount Mitake (御嶽 Mitake) is a 793 m (2,602 ft) high Japanese mountain located around 50 km (31 mi) north of Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. It should not be confused with Mount Mitake, a mountain in Tokyo, or Mount Ontake in Nagano Prefecture written with the same characters. This mountain is one of the 50 famous mountains in Hyōgo Prefecture.

History

Mount Mitake is the highest mountain in the Taki Mountains, including Mount Nishigatake and Mount Koganegadake. The Taki Mountains were one of the most holiest places for shugendo from Kamakura period to Muromachi period. However, Tamba Shugendo, a sect of Shugendo in Tamba Province, lost against Yamato Shugendo, another Shugendo sect of Yamato Province including Mount Omine, all of the temples in the Taki Mountains were burned in 1482.

Aizen-kutsu 
The God of Love in the cave(Rāgarāja). 
Nisshi-no-nozoki 
The mountains around Mitake 
Sasayama city 

References

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