Mt.tsurugi
Mount Tsurugi (剣山 Tsurugi-san), meaning sword is a 1,954.7 m (6,413.1 ft) high mountain on the border of Miyoshi, Mima and Naka in Tokushima Prefecture,Japan. This mountain is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Mount Tsurugi is the second highest mountain on the island of Shikoku, and also the second highest mountain west of Mount Haku, which is on the border ofIshikawa and Gifu prefectures in central Japan.
Mount Tsurugi is an important object of worship in this region and one of the centers of Shugendō, a sect of mixture of Shintoism and Buddhism. On the top of the mountain, there is a small shrine called ‘Tsurugi Jinja’.
The area around Mount Tsurugi is a major part of Tsurugi Quasi-National Park.
