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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 & TemplesHalls built onto the rock of the mountain. It is 1,015 steps to the innermost hall. This is where Basho wrote of the cicadas' voices soaking into the rock.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Uesugi Kenshin. Standing on the honmaru of Yonezawa Castle, it has served as the centre of the castle town.
Counted with Kishu's Kumano Sanzan and Shinshu's Kumano Kotai Jinja as one of the three Kumano shrines of Japan. Three rabbits are said to be hidden in the carving behind the main hall, and looking for them has become part of the visit.
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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 mausolea of Kenshin and the lords who followed him stand in a stand of cedars.
A Jizo standing in the field of frost-covered trees. In winter it is buried in snow, with only its face showing.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Oda Nobunaga. Tied to the Tendo Oda domain, it also lies behind the town's identity as a place of shogi.
YamagataShrines & TemplesThe deities of all three mountains are enshrined under one roof. The thatched roof is over two metres thick.
YamagataShrines & TemplesA platform thrust out from the cliff. The finest view at Yamadera.
The tutelary shrine of a port town made rich by the kitamaebune trade. Floats come out for the Sakata festival.
YamagataShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of Tsurugaoka Castle and enshrines the Sakai family, lords of Shonai.
A temple long tied to the Uesugi. The grave of Naoe Kanetsugu is here.
The centre of the Shinjo festival, whose float rite is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
It stands beside the crater lake, and is shut in by snow through the winter.