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Mt. Kannabi and the Tebara River

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©　Nicholas J. Teele, Kyoto

Mt. Kannabi (Kannabi-yama) is 217 meters, or about 711 feet in height.
It is in Kyotanabe, midway between the cities of Kyoto and Nara and Osaka, Japan. It's geographical location is 34 degrees, 48 minutes, and 21 seconds north latutude, and 135 degrees 44 minutes and 51 seconds east longitude. This picture was taken along the newly rebuilt concrete bed and banks of the Tebara River.



This river has its origin in numerous springs and streams that flow from Mt. Kannabi. According to an old man who owns part of Mt. Kannabi, and some of the fields along the Tebara River, the first concrete banks were made around Showa 27 (1952).

At the top of Mt. Kannabi is an ancient Shinto shrine, the Kannabi Jinja, seen in the picture below. The whole of Mt. Kannabi has been considered sacred for over one thousand years. The crest of Mt. Kannabi is to the right, behind the shrine building. To the left there is a cliff.



At the bottom of the cliff there is a stone marker which indicates the location of a Buddhist temple, named Kannabi-ji. Although the temple is said to have been founded in the eighth century, by the famous aescetic Buddhist monk Gyoki, who used it as a place to practice meditation and perform rituals, it was moved to a location about five minutes by car from the bottom of Mt. Kannabi, in the seventeenth century.

　©　Nicholas J. Teele, Doshisha Kyoto


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