Mount Hyonose

A mountain on the border between Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture and Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture. The second highest mountain in the Chugoku region. It is 1,510 meters above sea level. It is also called Mt. Suganosen, and the surrounding mountain range including Mt. Akakura is sometimes called Mt. Hyonose. Its original form is thought to have been a bell-shaped volcano that erupted in the early Quaternary Period, breaking through the Sangun metamorphic rocks and andesite from the end of the Tertiary Period. The crater-shaped depression and the highland marsh plant community of Kosenuma are designated natural monuments by Hyogo Prefecture. There are beech forests over 1,000 meters above sea level, a community of Japanese spicebush, and a wind-swept shrub forest of kyarabok trees on the summit, and it is known that golden eagles, Asiatic black bears, and dormice live there. There are legends of divine spirits centered around Koshikiiwa, and the old site of the Zao Gongen shrine is located here. The foothills are covered in 4-5m of deep snow, and the frost phenomenon can be seen. There is a ski resort. Tsukuyone was once a woodworker's village, and old folk customs remain. This is the main part of Hyonosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park.

[Minoru Iwanaga]

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鳥取県八頭(やず)郡と兵庫県養父(やぶ)市の県境にある山。中国地方第二の高山。標高1510メートル。須賀ノ山(すがのせん)ともいい、また周囲の赤倉山などを含めた山塊を氷ノ山とよぶこともある。原形は三郡変成岩や第三紀末の安山岩類を破って第四紀初頭に噴出した鐘状火山とみられ、火口状凹地、古生(こせ)沼の高地湿原植物群落は兵庫県指定天然記念物。1000メートル以高のブナ林、クロモジ群落、山頂部のキャラボクなどの風衝低木林があり、イヌワシ、ツキノワグマ、ヤマネなどが生息することが知られる。古敷岩(こしきいわ)などを中心に神霊伝承があり、古い蔵王権現(ざおうごんげん)の社址(しゃし)がある。山麓(さんろく)は4～5メートルの深雪地で樹氷現象もみられ、スキー場がある。舂米(つくよね)はかつての木地師集落で古い民俗が残る。氷ノ山後山那岐山(ひょうのせんうしろやまなぎさん)国定公園の主部。

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