Ōeyama

Ōeyama (Japanese: 大枝山) also Ooe-yama and Mount Ooe is a mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.[1]

The mount is 480m high. It was known in popular mythology as the residence of Shuten-dōji, a demon. It was developed for nickel mines, where Allied POWs were used,[2] and then reversed as the site of an Allied POW camp after the end of World War II.

It is now the site of a ski resort, about 20min by bus from Miyazu Station on the KTR Miyazu Line.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Helen Craig McCullough Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike. 1994 glossary Page 478 "Oeyama. A hill in what is now Ukyo-ku, Kyoto; the road over it led to Tanba Province."
  2. ↑ Naoko Shibusawa America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy 2006 Page 142 "Oeyama Nickel Industry Company, a mining and metal processing plant located a hundred kilometers from Kyoto near the Sea of Japan. During the war this company used Allied prisoners of war as laborers at the company's surface mines."
  3. ↑ Ski Resort

Coordinates: 34°58′49″N 135°38′26″E / 34.98028°N 135.64056°E / 34.98028; 135.64056

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