Mount Takakuma

Mount Takakuma (高熊山, Takakuma-yama) is a sacred mountain in Anao (穴太), Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

It is a hill in the mountain recesses of Anao 穴太, a village in the Tamba region of Kyoto, and in olden days was the former site of Obata Shrine 小幡神社 dedicated to Emperor Kaika with its status officially recognized in the Engi-shiki.

It is also a sacred mount with village seniors' legend that when Emperor Buretsu tried to pick his successor, the Prince of Anao hid himself in Mt.

Takakura and spent the rest of his life there, and that not knowing the prince's whereabouts by any means, Emperor Buretsu had no choice but to scout around for a descendant of the imperial family and abdicate the throne in favor of his pick named Emperor Keitai.Mount Takakuma is one of the most sacred sites of the Oomoto religion.

[4][5] Oomoto followers regularly organize pilgrimages to the cave on Mount Takakuma where Deguchi received his divine revelations.