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YamagataShrines & TemplesHaguro is the present, Gassan the past and death, Yudono the future and rebirth. To walk the three in order has long been called a journey of rebirth: the meaning is in the sequence itself. The stone stairway through the cedars runs to 2,446 steps.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of Tsurugaoka Castle and enshrines the Sakai, lords of the Shonai domain. The centre of the castle town.
YamagataShrines & TemplesA National Treasure pagoda standing among the cedars, held to be the oldest in northern Japan.
YamagataShrines & TemplesAt the 1,984-metre summit. Within the three mountains of Dewa it carries the past, and death.
YamagataShrines & TemplesDo not speak of it, do not listen: so the rule runs. There is no hall; the rock with its scalding spring is itself the deity.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt enshrines a sokushinbutsu, a self-mummified monk: an ascetic of the Yudonosan faith who made a buddha of his own body.
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YamagataShrines & TemplesThe deities of all three mountains are enshrined under one roof. The thatched roof is over two metres thick.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of Tsurugaoka Castle and enshrines the Sakai family, lords of Shonai.
The heart of the Tsurugaoka Castle site. The frame of the castle town is still visible.
YamagataMuseumsPseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataMuseumsManuscripts of the novelist whose samurai stories were all set in this plain.
YamagataArt & CraftsThe mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.
YamagataContemporary ArtA circular gallery serving as the city's main venue for regional artists.
Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.
Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.
YamagataArt & CraftsOne of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.
YamagataArchitectureThree thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.