Mount Ena - Enasan

...The legend of the flying bowl of Yoneyama, which is linked to Taicho, the founder of Hakusan in Kaga, also shows that this mountain was a target for maritime traffic. Yoneyama is famous as a mountain that worships Yakushi Nyorai, and in the Daido Ruijuho from the early Heian period, it is written that "Enayama medicine is the tradition of Yunoie in Mishima, Echigo Province, and originally belonged to Sukunahikona Shrine," which tells us that medicine was at the basis of Yoneyama's Yakushi faith and also tells us that Yoneyama was once called Mount Ena. It attracted a great deal of faith in the Middle Ages, as is clear from the fact that the head priest of the Shingon sect Yoneyama-ji Mikkō-in, who serves as the head priest of the Yakushido Hall at the foot of the mountain, was appointed by the Muromachi shogunate, and that Yoneyama-ji was ranked as one of the Ten Temples. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Mount Ena" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…加賀白山の開祖泰澄（たいちよう）と結びついた米山の飛鉢伝承も，この山が海上交通の目標とされてきたことを示すものであろう。米山は薬師如来をまつる山として有名であるが，平安時代初期の《大同類聚方》には〈恵奈山薬，越後国三志摩雄之家伝方也，元者少彦名神方也〉とあり，薬が米山の薬師信仰の基礎にあったことを物語るとともに，米山がかつては恵奈（えな）山と称されていたことがわかる。山上山下の薬師堂の別当をつとめる真言宗米山寺密蔵院の住持が室町幕府によって任命されていたことや，米山寺が十刹（じつせつ）に列したことでも明らかなように，中世にはかなりの信仰を集めていた。…

※「恵奈山」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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