Thursday, November 20, 2008
Daisen
This is the manhole cover for Daisen Town, situated at the base of Mount Daisen in western Tottori Prefecture. It shows the town flower, sazanka, a type of camelia, and the town tree, kyaraboku, a kind of Yew, against a backdrop of the mountain.
Mount Daisen, at 1729 metres is the highest mountain in the Chugoku region, and is a volcano with 3 peaks. During the winter months climbers who are planning to climb Mt Everest come here to practise. The mountain was important as a center of Shugendo, and modern yamabushi can still be seen here on certain festival days.
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Fantastic picture of Mount Daisen. I will make this photo as my desktop background. Even though it is a volcanic mountain ,people are not scared to climb the mountain. That's very interesting.
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An awful lot of mountains being climbed all over the world are volcanoes :)
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