Yamato Sanzan or the three mountains of Yamato, in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan, are Mount Kagu , Mount Unebi , and Mount Miminashi . Celebrated in Japanese poetry, they have been jointly designated a Place of Scenic Beauty. Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan, is said to have built his palace on the southeast side of Mt Unebi; he is enshrined at Kashihara Jingū. Archaeological study in the 1990s has shown that, rather than their surrounding Fujiwara-kyō on three sides, the palace-city was so large as to encompass the three mountains.
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