Elevation 2,486 m | Last eruption 9540 BCE ± 500 years | |
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Similar Mount Nikkō‑Shirane, Mt Nyoho, Mount Tsukuba, Mt Taro, Mount Akagi | ||
Volcanoes in japan 6 mount nantai
Mount Nantai (男体山, Nantai-san) literally "man's body mountain", also called Futara-san (二荒山) is a stratovolcano in the Nikkō National Park in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. It stands at 2,486 m high. A prominent landmark, it can be seen on clear days from as far as the Pacific coast, 100 km away.
Contents
- Volcanoes in japan 6 mount nantai
- Map of Mount Nantai Chugushi Nikko Tochigi Prefecture 321 1661 Japan
- Mountain climbing of the mount nantai in nikko
- Trekking
- Volcanic activity
- Mount Nantai as a sacred mountain
- References
Map of Mount Nantai, Chugushi, Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture 321-1661, Japan
Mountain climbing of the mount nantai in nikko
Trekking
The mountain is popular with hikers, and the trail to the summit starts through a gate at Futarasan Shrine's Chūgushi (中宮祠, middle shrine). The gate is open between 5 May and 25 October.
Mount Nantai is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan.
Volcanic activity
In September 2008, the Japan Meteorological Agency was asked to reclassify Mount Nantai as "active" based upon work by Yasuo Ishizaki and colleagues of Toyama University showing evidence of an eruption approximately 7000 years ago.
Mount Nantai as a sacred mountain
Archeologists affirm that during the Yayoi period the most common go-shintai (御神体) (a yorishiro housing a kami) in the earliest Shinto shrines was a nearby mountain peak supplying with its streams water, and therefore life, to the plains below where people lived.
Mount Nantai constitutes Futarasan Shrine's go-shintai, and the shrine is an important example of this ancient type of mountain cult. Significantly, the name Nantai (男体) itself means "man's body". The mountain not only provides water to the rice paddies below, but has the shape of the phallic stone rods found in pre-agricultural Jōmon sites.