Mount Daisen (大山 Daisen), is a volcanic mountain in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It has an elevation of 1,729 metres. This mountain is the highest in the Chūgoku region, and the most important volcano on the Daisen volcanic belt: a part of Southwest Honshu volcanic arc, where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Amurian Plate.
Mount Daisen, which stands directly on the Sea of Japan, was regarded as one of the most important mountains for Japanese Shugendō. According to the Izumo Kokudo Fudoki, completed in 733, it was called Ōkami-take, literally, Mountain of the great god.
Mount Daisen has been called Hōki Fuji and Izumo Fuji, depending on
which side of the mountain the viewer is standing on. These names are
based on the old Hōki and Izumo provinces.
Halfway up the mountain stands a Buddhist temple, Daisen-ji. This has existed as a centre of worship since the Heian Period. It was founded by the Tendai sect in 718.
Climbing the mountain used to be severely prohibited without a
selected monk of Daisen-ji, and common people could not access the
mountain until the Edo Period.
The mountain has also been important to the mountain ascetics of the Shugendō sect. Just above the temple is the Ōgamiyama Jinja, literally, shrine of the mountain of the great god.
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