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Mount Shisuniwa

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Mount Shisuniwa
Mount Shisuniwa. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mount Shisuniwa (Shisuniwa-san) is a 1,235.6 m (4; 054 ft) mountain of Ōmine Mountain Range, located on the border of Kurotaki and Kawakami, Nara, Japan. This mountain is on the route of Ōmine Okugakemichi.

Shisuniwa literally means ‘the rock of four “sun” (=12 cm)’. The other names of this mountain are, Mount Yonsun (Yonsuniwa-san) and Mount Moriya (Moriya-dake).

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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