Mount Daisen
{{Short description|Stratovolcano on the island of Honshu in Japan}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Daisen
| other_name = 大山
| translation = Big Mountain
| language = Japanese
| pronunciation = {{IPA|ja|daiseɴ|lang}}
| photo = Mt Daisen Full View.jpg
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| photo_caption = Mount Daisen from the West
| elevation_m = 1729
| elevation_ref = [http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/japan.html "Japan Ultra-Prominences"]. Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
| range = Chūgoku Mountains
| prominence_m = 1634
| parent_peak =
| listing = Ultra, Ribu
List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
| location = Tottori Prefecture, Japan
| map = Japan
| map_caption = Japan
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| label = Mount Daisen
| label_position = top
| coordinates = {{coord|35|22|16|N|133|32|47|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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| topo =
| type = Complex volcano
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| age =
| last_eruption = Estimated 17,000-18,000 years ago
| first_ascent =
| easiest_route = Hiking
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{{nihongo|Mount Daisen|大山|Daisen}} is a dormant stratovolcano in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It has an elevation of {{Convert|1729|m|abbr=on}}. This mountain is the highest in the Chūgoku region, and the most important volcano on the Daisen volcanic belt, which is a part of the Southwestern Honshu volcanic arc, where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Amurian Plate.{{fact|date=September 2022}}
Outline
Mount Daisen is a complex volcano, made by repeated volcanic activity over thousands of years. Eruptions in this area started 1.8 million years ago and resulted in Old Daisen some 500,000 years ago{{fact|date=August 2024}}. The Mount Daisen of today, New Daisen, resulted from a second group of eruptions which started 50,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago in the caldera of Old Daisen. 50,000 years ago, this mountain had a plinian eruption from which volcanic ash can be found as far away as the Tohoku Region of Japan. Daisen is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan, and also one of the Chūgoku 100 mountains.
File:Daisen Volcano & Hiruzen Volcano Group Relief Map, SRTM-1.jpg
History and religion
Mount Daisen, which stands directly on the Sea of Japan, was regarded as one of the most important mountains for Japanese Shugendō religion. According to the Izumo Kokudo Fudoki, completed in 733, it was called Ōgami-take, literally, Mountain of the great god. This and Ōgami-yama (whence the name of Ōgamiyama Jinja) represent the older, native Japanese name for the mountain, while Daisen is the Chinese-based go-on reading of 大山, literally, great mountain.
Mount Daisen has been called Hōki Fuji and Izumo Fuji, depending on which side of the mountain the viewer is standing on. These names are based on the old Hōki and Izumo provinces.Paul Hunt, Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails, pg 73
Halfway up the mountain stands a Buddhist temple, Daisen-ji. This has existed as a centre of worship since the Heian period. It was founded by the Tendai sect in 718.
Climbing the mountain used to be severely prohibited without a selected monk of Daisen-ji, and common people could not access the mountain until the Edo period.
The mountain has also been important to the mountain ascetics of the Shugendō sect. Just above the temple is the Ōgamiyama Jinja, literally, shrine of the mountain of the great god.
Route
After the 2000 Tottori earthquake, some of Mount Daisen's peaks are on the verge of collapse. It is prohibited to ascend the mountain's highest peak, the Kengamine ({{convert|1729|m|ft}}). Climbers are able to access the Misen Peak ({{convert|1709.4|m|ft}}).{{cite web|url=http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/watchizu.aspx?b=352216&l=1333224|script-title=ja:伯耆大山|year=2008|publisher=Geographical Survey Institute|language=ja|access-date=2008-07-21}} The most popular route is from Daisen-ji to the Misen Peak. It takes three hours to reach the summit.
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Gallery
File:Daisen 2016-03-21 (25887648161).jpg|NW side
File:Daisen 2014-10-24 (14997796814).jpg|South wall
File:Daisen 2016-03-07 (25502160362).jpg|WNW side
File:Daisen highest peak.jpg|Kengamine Peak, the highest peak of Mount Daisen
Mount Daisen 2015-05-03 (17214768368).jpg|Looking NW
File:View of Hiruzen from Daisen Summit.JPG|Looking SSW
File:The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States 41 Hoki.jpg|Hiroshige
See also
References
{{Commons category|Daisen (mountain)}}
{{reflist}}
- [http://www.gsi.go.jp/ENGLISH/index.html Geographical Survey Institute]
- Paul Hunt, Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails, Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd., 1988. {{ISBN|0-87011-893-5}} and {{ISBN|4-7700-1393-0}} C0075
External links
- {{cite gvp|name=Daisen|vn=283811|access-date=2021-06-25}}
- [https://gbank.gsj.jp/volcano/Quat_Vol/volcano_data/H17.html Daisen] - Geological Survey of Japan
- [http://en.go-to-japan.jp/daisenguide/ Daisen Guide] - Houki town
{{100 Famous Japanese Mountains}}
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Category:Mountains of Tottori Prefecture
Category:Volcanoes of Tottori Prefecture
Category:Highest points of Japanese national parks
Category:Stratovolcanoes of Japan