Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi

Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi (カムイエクウチカウシ山, Kamuiekuuchikaushi-yama) is located in the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan. It's one of the 200 Famous Japanese Mountains. The name is derived from Ainu languages which means "the mountain which bears/gods tumble down." Climbers generally abbreviate it as Kamueku.[2]

Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi
カムイエクウチカウシ山
A view from Mount Pyramid
Highest point
Elevation1,979.5 m (6,494 ft) [1]
Prominence466 m (1,529 ft) [1]
Parent peakMount Poroshiri
ListingList of mountains and hills of Japan by height
Coordinates42°37′30″N 142°45′59″E [1]
Geography
Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi
Location of Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi in Japan.
LocationHokkaidō, Japan
Parent rangeHidaka Mountains
Topo mapGeospatial Information Authority (国土地理院, Kokudochiriin) 25000:1 札内川上流
50000:1 浦河
Geology
Mountain typeFold

It's the second highest peak only to the Mount Poroshiri in the Hidaka mountains, and its altitude is 1,979 m (6,493 ft) above sea level.[3][4] The mountain is situated in the Hidaka-sanmyaku Erimo Quasi-National Park, and Triangulation station has been set up in the peak by Masaki Terunobu (正木照信)[5] in 1900.[6] A peak a little south east to the mountain is Pyramid peak (ピラミッド峰) which is 1,853 m (6,079 ft) above sea level shaped like a square pyramid, so that the Mount Kamuiekuuchikaushi can be the best viewing platform for the peak.

Etymology

The name is derived from Ainu languages which means "the mountain which bears/gods tumble down." However Ainu people who worship bears as gods are not the one who gave it the name. Originally the mountain was called Satsunai mountain (札内岳). In 1929, Ito Shugoro and others from Hokkaido University built a hut at a "place" called Kamuiekuuchikau which located upstream of Tottabetsu river as a preparation for attacking the Mount Poroshiri. At that time a guide mistakingly told them the name of place as the mountain where they were, and thus the name has been stuck.[5]

Geography

As the name indicates, the mountain is steep, and has cirques just like other lofty peaks in the Hidaka Mountains; containing Hachi no sawa Cirque (八ノ沢カール) in Tokachi Subprefecture side and Koiboku Cirque (コイボクカール) in Hidaka Subprefecture side. There also lie Moraines in downstream of those cirques.[7] Those cirques in the Hidaka Mountains are smaller than ones in Hida Mountains region. The reason could be because in Ice age, around 20,000 years ago, snowfall was less when Japanese archipelago was connected to the continent by land and thus warm sea current, Tsushima Current was blocked from getting into Sea of Japan.[8]

See also

Notes
  1. Geospatial Information Authority topo map 25000:1 札内川上流
  2. 荒井魏 『日本三百名山』 毎日新聞社編、1997年
  3. "標高値を改定する山岳一覧 資料2" (PDF). 国土地理院. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  4. GNSS測量等の点検・補正調査による2014年4月1日の国土地理院『日本の山岳標高一覧-1003山-』における改定値。なお、旧版での標高は1,980m。
  5. 日本山岳会『新日本山岳誌』ナカニシヤ出版、2005年
  6. 国土地理院 基準点成果等閲覧サービス
  7. 田代博、藤本一美、清水長正、高田将志 『山の地図と地形』 山と渓谷社、1996年
  8. 梅沢俊、瀬尾央 『新版・空撮登山ガイド1 北海道の山々』 山と渓谷社、1995年


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