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November 3, 2000. Vicinity of the top of Mt. Ten'nyo, Oizumi, Yamanashi
Prefecture.
On the Culture Day in 2000, as it was still warm around the mountain, leaves
of the trees were changing their color unusually slow this year. There are
many mountain paths to Yatsugatake Mountains. I will show you one of them,
Mt. Ten'nyo. This is the origin of the name; In the middle of Japan, there
was a shrine Itsukino-mori (people currently call it Utsukushi-mori), where
eight millions of gods gathered once a year and discussed how to rule the
country. After the conference, heavenly maidens called "ten'nyo" in
Japanese, who lived in the mountain purified themselves washing their bodies
at Amano-kawara, and their clothes in the pond, "Hagoromo no ike". The
maidens really loved the mountain and so it was named Mt. Ten'nyo.
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