Mount Ashigara

Ashigara
Ashigara
Highest point
Elevation	1,212.5 m (3,978 ft)
Parent peak	Mount Hakone
Coordinates	35°17′23″N 139°00′17″E / 35.28972°N 139.00472°E
Geography
Location	Minamiashigara, Kanagawa; Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan
Geology
Mountain type	stratovolcano

Mount Ashigara (足柄山), also known as Mount Kintoki (金時山), is the northernmost peak of the Hakone caldera, on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan. Ashigara is not a remnant of the collapse of the old Hakone volcano itself, but rather a parasitic cone growing from its flank.

Mount Ashigara is the legendary birthplace of Kintarō.

Etymology

The kanji of the mountain's name mean "Leg Handle Mountain", but the written form is ateji, meaning that the kanji were applied phonetically, and not for any symbolic representation of the mountain's characteristics or history. In old songs it is spelled out phonetically as asigari (阿之賀利) or asigara (安思我良). The name appears to be Ainu, from *áskar-i ("pure place") [aʃkaɾi], the locative form of áskan-ne ("clean, pure").^{[citation needed]}