HAKUSAN

White mountain, also read Shirayama, the name of a mountain in Ishikawa prefecture sacred in theShugendotradition. Buddhist and Shinto deities including the three deitiesIzanagi, Izanami and Kukurihime, the goddess who arbitrated between them in their quarrel at Yomotsu-hirasaka are enshrined there in the Shirayama-hime shrine. Branch hakusan shrines (bunsha) are found throughout Japan.