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Nachi Falls (那智滝, Nachi no Taki) in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is one of the best-known waterfalls in Japan. With a drop of 133 meters (and 13 meters wide), [1] it is the tallest waterfall with a single uninterrupted drop in Japan (although Japan also disputes Russia's right to Iturup Island, which has the 141 m high Ilya Muromets Waterfall); however, the tallest Japanese ...
Kumano Nachi Taisha is an example of Buddhist and Shinto syncretism (Shinbutsu shūgō) nestled in the Kii Mountains, near Kii Katsuura, Japan. Cedar forests surround the site. The 133-meter Nachi Waterfall, worshiped at the Hiryū Shrine near Kumano Nachi Taisha, is believed to be inhabited by a kami called Hiryū Gongen. [2]
Nachikatsuura town hall. Nachikatsuura (那智勝浦町, Nachikatsuura-chō) is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 November 2021, the town had an estimated population of 14,420 in 7,622 households and a population density of 79 persons per km 2. [1]
The temple was purposely built near Nachi Falls, where it may have previously been a site of nature worship. Seiganto-ji, part of the Kumano Sanzan shrine complex, is one of the few remaining jingū-ji or shrine temples following the forcible separation of Shinto and Buddhism during the Meiji restoration .
A Kumano shrine (熊野神社, Kumano Jinja) is a type of Shinto shrine which enshrines the three Kumano mountains: Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi [Kumano Gongen (熊野権現)]. [1] There are more than 3,000 Kumano shrines in Japan , and each has received its kami from another Kumano shrine through a process of propagation called bunrei ( 分霊 ...
Nachi Station opened on the Shingu Railway on December 4, 1912. The Shingu Railway was nationalized on July 1, 1934, and the current station building was completed in December 1936. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR( on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
A little further searching shows that the fall is actually Ilya Muromets Waterfall on Itarup (another of the islands taken by Russia, but still claimed by Japan). I think the best thing is to say Nachi is the tallest in Japan and add a footnote "The 141m high Ilya Muromets Waterfall is also in territory claimed by Japan." If nobody objects, I ...
A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri) is a series of landscape woodblock prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. Completed c. 1833-1834 and containing eight prints, it was the first ukiyo-e series to approach the theme of falling water, [ 1 ] and was acclaimed for its innovative and expressive depictions.