kirishima-yama

Updated: August 14, 2026

*Takachiho-dake is often spoken of as the mountain thus celebrated, but Takachiho is only the eastern, and lower, of the two peaks of Kirishima-yama. It was, moreover, to a river of Tsukushi that Izanagi repaired to cleanse himself from the pollution of hades.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era