Ōeyama (mountain)
Ōeyama (Japanese: 大枝山), also Ooe-yama and Mount Ooe, is a mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.[1]
The mount is 480m high. It was known in popular mythology as the residence of Shuten-dōji, a demon. It was developed for nickel mines, where Allied POWs were used,[2] and then reversed as the site of an Allied POW camp after the end of World War II.[clarification needed]
It is now the site of a ski resort, about 20 minutes by bus from Miyazu Station on the KTR Miyazu Line.[3]
References
- ^ Helen Craig McCullough. Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike. 1994, ISBN 9780804722575. glossary Page 478: "Oeyama. A hill in what is now Ukyo-ku, Kyoto; the road over it led to Tanba Province."
- ^ Naoko Shibusawa. America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy 2006 Page 142: "Oeyama Nickel Industry Company, a mining and metal processing plant located a hundred kilometers from Kyoto near the Sea of Japan. During the war this company used Allied prisoners of war as laborers at the company's surface mines."
- ^ Ski Resort