Yamato Sanzan

{{Short description|Three historic mountains in Kashihara, Japan}}

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{{nihongo|Yamato Sanzan|大和三山}} or "the three mountains of Yamato", in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan, are {{nihongo|Mount Amanokagu|香具山}}, {{nihongo|Mount Unebi|畝傍山}}, and {{nihongo|Mount Miminashi|耳成山}}. Celebrated in Japanese poetry, they have been jointly designated a Place of Scenic Beauty.{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/401/00003462 |title=大和三山 |trans-title=Yamato Sanzan |language=ja |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |access-date=17 May 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.city.kashihara.nara.jp/kankou/own_bunkazai/bunkazai/shiteibunkazai/yamatosanzan.html |title=大和三山 |trans-title=Yamato Sanzan |language=ja |publisher=Kashihara City |access-date=17 May 2012}} Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan, is said to have built his palace on the southeast side of Mt Unebi; he is enshrined at Kashihara Jingū.{{cite web |url=http://www.city.kashihara.nara.jp/kikaku/foreign/gaiyo/english.html |title=Information of Kashihara |publisher=Kashihara City |access-date=17 May 2012}} Archaeological study in the 1990s has shown that, rather than their surrounding Fujiwara-kyō on three sides, the "palace-city" was so large as to encompass the three mountains.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8fzx6eRzf-AC&dq=yamato+sanzan+palace&pg=PA79 |title=Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800 |author=Ooms, Hermann |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780824832353 |page=79}}

File:Kaguyama-mt.jpg|Mt Kagu (152.4 m) {{coord|34|29|43.5|N|135|49|05.5|E|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP_scale:10000}}

File:Kashihara-unebi.JPG|Mt Unebi (199.2 m) {{coord|34|29|32.5|N|135|47|06|E|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP_scale:10000}}

File:Miminashi-yama.jpg|Mt Miminashi (139.7 m) {{coord|34|30|53|N|135|48|20|E|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP_scale:10000}}