Mt. Arachi

A mountain that is said to have been located near the border between Fukui and Shiga prefectures. It is also written as Arichiyama, Arakiyama, and Arichiyama. The seven-ri-half-way route (Nishi-Omi Road) passed through the mountain. If you go from Kinai to Aibatsuyama in the north of Kohoku, you will enter one of the snowiest areas in the country, so it must have felt very oppressive to people in the capital. For this reason, a poem that touches on the feelings of this mountain is written in Volume 10 of the Manyoshu: "The reeds in the fields of Hatta are colored, and the foam snow on the peak of Aibatsuyama seems to fall coldly." It also frequently appears in the Yoshitsune-ki and Taiheiki. It is thought to be a mountain mass between the old Aibatsu village in the southern part of Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, and Koaraji in Makino Town, Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture.

[Kunio Inmaki]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

福井・滋賀県境付近にあったとされる山。有乳山、荒血山、荒乳山とも書く。山中を七里半越（西近江(にしおうみ)路）が通っていた。畿内(きない)から湖北の愛発山を越えると、全国屈指の多雪地帯となるので、中央の都人にとっては非常に重苦しく感じられたのであろう。そのため、この山での感慨をおりに触れて詠んだ歌が『万葉集』巻10に「八田(やた)の野の浅茅(あさじ)色付(づ)く愛発山峰(みね)の沫雪(あわゆき)寒く降るらし」と残されている。また『義経(ぎけい)記』『太平記』にもしばしば登場する。福井県敦賀(つるが)市南部の旧愛発村と、滋賀県高島市マキノ町小荒路(こあらじ)との間の山塊と考えられる。

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