Dewa Sanzan
Dewa Sanzan is in the northern Tōhoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu. Dewa Sanzan means "Three Mountains of Dewa" and indeed comprises the three sacred mountains of Mt.Photo: Geomr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 460 metres
- Description: mountains in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Three Mountains of Dewa”
Dewa Sanzan
- Categories: sacred mountain, triad, and landform
- Location: Yamagata, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Dewa Sanzan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dewako Hiru Mendiak”
- Catalan: “Tres Muntanyes de Dewa”
- Cebuano: “Dewa Sanzan”
- Central Bikol: “Tolong Bukid kan Dewa”
- Chinese: “出羽三山”
- Dutch: “Three Mountains of Dewa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ثريس اوف ديوا”
- French: “Dewa Sanzan”
- French: “trois monts Dewa”
- French: “Trois monts Dewa”
- German: “Dewa Sanzan”
- German: “Dewa-sanzan”
- German: “Dewasanzan”
- German: “Drei Berge von Dewa”
- German: “Drei Gebirge von Dewa”
- German: “Haguro-san”
- German: “Hagurosan”
- German: “Yudono-san”
- German: “Yudono”
- German: “Yudonosan”
- Hungarian: “Deva Három Hegye”
- Italian: “Tre montagne di Dewa”
- Japanese: “出羽三山”
- Korean: “데와 3산”
- Ladin: “Trëi Crëps de Dewa”
- Lithuanian: “Devos kalnai”
- Persian: “سه کوه دوا”
- Polish: “Góry Dewa”
- Russian: “Три горы Дзва”
- Spanish: “Tres Montañas de Dewa”
- Venetian: “Tre montagne de Dewa”
- Vietnamese: “Dewa Sanzan”
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