Mount Nagata (Japan)

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Mount Nagata
Mount Nagata seen from Mount Miyanoura
Highest point
Elevation	1,886 m (6,188 ft)[1]
Listing	List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
Coordinates	30°20′34.001″N 130°29′33.000″E / 30.34277806°N 130.49250000°E / 30.34277806; 130.49250000
Naming
Native name	永田岳 (Japanese)
Geography
Location	Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike

Mount Nagata (永田岳, Nagata-dake) is a mountain on the island of Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. At an altitude of 1,886 m (6,188 ft), it is the second highest peak of Yakushima and the Kyushu region after Mount Miyanoura.^[1]

Inō Tadataka's map of Yakushima refers to Mt. Nagata as Mt. Gongen (権現岳, gongen-dake) ^[2]

Locals have traditionally made biannual pilgrimages to the summit of Mt. Nagata in the fall and spring.^[3][4] In 1722 a hokora (a type of miniature Shinto shrine) was constructed on the mountain's summit.^[3]

In the 1480s, the Buddist priest Nichizō Shōnin retreated to a cave atop Mt. Nagata where he recited the Lotus Sutra for seven days.^[4] Since then, the native kami of the Shinto religion, Hikohohodemi no Mikoto, has been venerated as a manifestation of the Buddhist mountain deity Ippon Hoju Daigongen.^[4] This fusion of an indigenous Shinto deity with an introduced Buddhist deity is an example of Shinbutsu-shūgō.

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