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Mount Kujū (九重山, Kujū-san), located on the border of Kokonoe and Taketa in Ōita Prefecture, Japan, is a stratovolcano in Kyushu Island, Japan, with a summit elevation of 1,791 metres (5,876 ft). It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. It is part of the Aso-Kujū National Park.
Aso-Kujū National Park (阿蘇くじゅう国立公園, Aso-Kujū Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in Kumamoto and Ōita Prefectures, Japan. The park derives its name from Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan, and the Kujū mountains. [1] [2] Mount Aso is also one of the largest caldera volcanos in the world. [3]
Kyūshū Chūō Sanchi Quasi-National Park (九州中央山地国定公園, Kyūshū Chūō Sanchi Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in Kumamoto Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. [2] [3] It was founded on 15 May 1982 and has an area of 271 km 2 (105 sq mi). [4] The park includes Aya Biosphere Reserve in its territory. [5]
Unlike most museums in Japan, which contract out conservation work, the Kyushu National Museum has an extensive on-site suite of conservation labs and associated staff, serving as the major conservation center for all of western Japan. [3] The museum was designed by Kiyonori Kikutake. [4]
Constructing Buddha statues out of stone is widely practiced in Buddhist areas in Asia. These images can be divided into three broad types: Magaibutsu (磨崖仏, literally "polished-cliff Buddha"), bas-relief images carved directly into a cliff face, movable independent stone Buddhas carved from cut stone, and Buddhas carved inside rock caves, The Usuki images can be classed as Magaibutsu.
The Fukui Cave (福井洞窟, Fukui dōkutsu) is an archaeological site consisting of a Japanese Paleolithic period to the early incipient Jōmon period cave dwelling in the Yoshii neighborhood of the city of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1978. [1]
The Shimabara Peninsula (島原半島, Shimabara-hantō) is a peninsula located in Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The peninsula incorporates the cities of Shimabara, Minamishimabara, and Unzen. The northern, eastern, and southeastern coasts of the peninsula face the Ariake Sea, and the western coast faces Tachibana Bay.
Mount Ōkueyama (大崩山), also known as Mount Ōkue, is a Volcanic Mountain on the Japanese island of Kyushu.Part of an ancient volcanic formation known as the Okueyama Volcano-plutonic Complex, [1] Mount Ōkueyama (and possibly several nearby volcanoes) [2] experienced a massive eruption ~13.7 million years before present (13.7 Ma); it has been postulated that this eruption measured 8 on ...